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Update or fix links to use the https protocol instead of http.
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CHANGES BETWEEN 2.8 and 2.8.1 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - B/W hinting of TrueType fonts didn't work properly if interpreter version 38 or 40 was selected. - Some severe problems within the handling of TrueType Variation Fonts were found and fixed. - Function `FT_Set_Var_Design_Coordinates' didn't correctly handle the case with less input coordinates than axes. II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - By default, FreeType now offers high quality LCD-optimized output without resorting to ClearType techniques of resolution tripling and filtering. In this method, called Harmony, each color channel is generated separately after shifting the glyph outline, capitalizing on the fact that the color grids on LCD panels are shifted by a third of a pixel. This output is indistinguishable from ClearType with a light 3-tap filter. III. MISCELLANEOUS - Using the new function `FT_Get_Var_Axis_Flags', an application can access the `flags' field of a variation axis (introduced in OpenType version 1.8.2) - More sanity checks. - The internal representation of buffers for LCD rendering has changed (to be more precise, the amount of padding gets computed differently). Applications that use the FreeType API are not affected. - To reset all design axis values of a variation font to its default values you can now say error = FT_Set_Var_Design_Coordinates( face, 0, NULL ); This also works with functions `FT_Set_MM_Design_Coordinates' and `FT_Set_MM_Blend_Coordinates'. - FreeType now synthesizes a missing Unicode cmap for (older) TrueType fonts also if glyph names are available. - FreeType has improved handling of BDF fonts without the `POINT_SIZE', `RESOLUTION_X', or `RESOLUTION_Y' properties; the library now uses the values of the `SIZE' keyword if they are missing. Previously, `SIZE' was completely ignored, and FreeType used heuristic values instead. - Multiple calls to `FT_Bitmap_Convert' do work now as advertised. Previously, they failed with an assertion error if there was an empty bitmap between non-empty ones. - The warping option has moved from `light' to `normal' hinting where it replaces the original hinting algorithm. The `light' mode is now always void of any hinting in x-direction. - 16bit compiler support is now officially ended. We didn't provide any maintenance since many years, and given that there were no error or problem reports either it seems that it is no longer needed. - The `ftgrid' demo program can now toggle the display of grid lines with the `G' key. - The `ftgrid' demo program can toggle a different set of colors (suitable to color-blind people) with the `C' key. - The `ftgrid' demo program now supports the `-e' command line option to select a cmap. - The `ftdump' demo program has a new command line option `-t' to output the SFNT table list. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.7.1 and 2.8 I. IMPORTANT CHANGES - Support for OpenType Variation Fonts is now complete. The last missing part was handling the `VVAR' and `MVAR' tables, which is available with this release. - A new function `FT_Face_Properties' allows the control of some module and library properties per font. Currently, the following properties can be handled: stem darkening, LCD filter weights, and the random seed for the `random' CFF operator. - The PCF change to show more `colourful' family names (introduced in version 2.7.1) was too radical; it can now be configured with PCF_CONFIG_OPTION_LONG_FAMILY_NAMES at compile time. If activated, it can be switched off at run time with the new pcf property `no-long-family-names'. If the `FREETYPE_PROPERTIES' environment variable is available, you can say FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=pcf:no-long-family-names=1 - Support for the following scripts has been added to the auto-hinter. Adlam, Avestan, Bamum, Buhid, Carian, Chakma, Coptic, Cypriot, Deseret, Glagolitic, Gothic, Kayah, Lisu, N'Ko, Ol Chiki, Old Turkic, Osage, Osmanya, Saurashtra, Shavian, Sundanese, Tai Viet, Tifinagh, Unified Canadian Syllabics, Vai II. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - `Light' auto-hinting mode no longer uses TrueType metrics for TrueType fonts. This bug was introduced in version 2.4.6, causing horizontal scaling also. Almost all GNU/Linux distributions (with Fedora as a notable exception) disabled the corresponding patch for good reasons; chances are thus high that you won't notice a difference. If optical backward compatibility for legacy applications is necessary, you might enable the AF_CONFIG_OPTION_TT_SIZE_METRICS configuration option. However, it is strongly recommended to avoid that, adjusting font sizes instead. - Global size metrics values in the `FT_Size_Metrics' structure can be different for TrueType fonts. Reason is that in older FreeType versions the metrics were rounded differently to integer pixels compared to all other font formats, yielding an inconsistent behaviour if you used non-native hinting. Starting with this version, global size metrics for TrueType fonts are handled the same as other font formats: `ascender' gets rounded up, `descender' gets rounded down, `height' gets normally rounded, and `max_advance' gets normally rounded, too. If you need more precise values of (global) ascender, descender, height, or `max_advance', please take the corresponding values from the `FT_Face' structure and scale them manually. - If a TrueType font gets loaded with FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING, FreeType now scales the font linearly again (bug introduced in version 2.4.6). - CVE-2017-8105, CVE-2017-8287: Older FreeType versions have out-of-bounds writes caused by heap-based buffer overflows related to Type 1 fonts. https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8105 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8287 III. MISCELLANEOUS - A new function `FT_Set_Default_Properties' has been added to parse the `FREETYPE_PROPERTIES' environment variable (previously, it was internal only). `FT_Init_FreeType' always call this function, but `FT_New_Library' does not (similar to `FT_Add_Default_Modules'). - To be in sync with OpenType version 1.7 and newer, macros FT_PARAM_TAG_IGNORE_PREFERRED_FAMILY, FT_PARAM_TAG_IGNORE_PREFERRED_SUBFAMILY, TT_NAME_ID_PREFERRED_FAMILY TT_NAME_ID_PREFERRED_SUBFAMILY are renamed to FT_PARAM_TAG_IGNORE_TYPOGRAPHIC_FAMILY, FT_PARAM_TAG_IGNORE_TYPOGRAPHIC_SUBFAMILY, TT_NAME_ID_TYPOGRAPHIC_FAMILY TT_NAME_ID_TYPOGRAPHIC_SUBFAMILY The old macro names are deprecated (but still available). - Support for SFNT `name' tables has been improved. . Format 1 `name' tables are now supported. Use new function `FT_Get_Sfnt_LangTag' to access associated language tags. . Language, encoding, and name IDs have been updated to OpenType version 1.8.1. - The new CFF engine now handles the `random' operator. All CFF opcodes are now supported. - The CFF module has a new property `random-seed' to control the pseudo-random number generation for the `random' operator. - The `freetype-config' script is now a wrapper of `pkg-config' if this program is available in the path. - FT_LOAD_TARGET_LCD is now a variant of FT_LOAD_TARGET_LIGHT; this should provide better rendering results. - A mode to display light auto-hinting with sub-pixel positioning has been added to `ftdiff'. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.7 and 2.7.1 I. IMPORTANT CHANGES - Support for the new CFF2 font format as introduced with OpenType 1.8 has been contributed by Dave Arnolds from Adobe. - Preliminary support for variation fonts as specified in OpenType 1.8 (in addition to the already existing support for Adobe's MM and Apple's GX formats). Dave Arnolds contributed handling of advance width change variation; more will come in the next version. II. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - Handling of raw CID fonts was partially broken (bug introduced in 2.6.4). - CVE-2016-10328: Older FreeType versions had an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the CFF fonts. https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10328 III. MISCELLANEOUS - Some limits for TrueType bytecode execution have been tightened to speed up FreeType's handling of malformed fonts, in particular to quickly abort endless loops. - The number of twilight points can no longer be set to an arbitrarily large value. - The total number of jump opcode instructions (like JMPR) with negative arguments is dynamically restricted; the same holds for the total number of iterations in LOOPCALL opcodes. The dynamic limits are based on the number of points in a glyph and the number of CVT entries. Please report if you encounter a font where the selected values are not adequate. - PCF family names are made more `colourful'; they now include the foundry and information whether they contain wide characters. For example, you no longer get `Fixed' but rather `Sony Fixed' or `Misc Fixed Wide'. - A new function `FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates' (with its alias name `FT_Get_MM_Blend_Coordinates') to retrieve the normalized blend coordinates of the currently selected variation instance has been added to the Multiple Masters interface. - A new function `FT_Get_Var_Design_Coordinates' to retrieve the design coordinates of the currently selected variation instance has been added to the Multiple Masters interface. - A new load flag `FT_LOAD_BITMAP_METRICS_ONLY' to retrieve bitmap information without loading the (embedded) bitmap itself. - Retrieving advance widths from bitmap strikes (using `FT_Get_Advance' and `FT_Get_Advances') have been sped up. - The usual round of fuzzer fixes to better reject malformed fonts. - The `ftmulti' demo program can now switch engines with key `H'. - The `ftstring' demo program can now show some built-in, non-latin sample strings (to be selected with the TAB key). - The `ftview' demo program can now switch between a font's charmaps using the TAB key. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.6.5 and 2.7 I. IMPORTANT CHANGES - As announced earlier, the 2.7.x series now uses the new subpixel hinting mode as the default, emulating a modern version of ClearType. This change inevitably leads to different rendering results, and you might change the `TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING' configuration option to adapt it to your taste (or use the new `FREETYPE_PROPERTIES' environment variable). See the corresponding entry below for version 2.6.4, which gives more information. - A new option `FT_CONFIG_OPTION_ENVIRONMENT_PROPERTIES' has been introduced. If set (which is the default), an environment variable `FREETYPE_PROPERTIES' can be used to control driver properties. Example: FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35 \ cff:no-stem-darkening=1 \ autofitter:warping=1 This allows to select, say, the subpixel hinting mode at runtime for a given application. See file `ftoption.h' for more. II. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - After loading a named instance of a GX variation font, the `face_index' value in the returned `FT_Face' structure now correctly holds the named instance index in the upper 16bits as documented. III. MISCELLANEOUS - A new macro `FT_IS_NAMED_INSTANCE' to test whether a given face is a named instance. - More fixes to GX font handling. - Apple's `GETVARIATION' bytecode operator (needed for GX variation font support) has been implemented. - Another round of fuzzer fixes, mainly to reject invalid fonts faster. - Handling of raw CID fonts was broken (bug introduced in version 2.6.4). - The smooth rasterizer has been streamlined to make it faster by approx. 20%. - The `ftgrid' demo program now understands command line option `-d' to give start-up design coordinates. - The `ftdump' demo program has a new command line option `-p' to dump TrueType bytecode instructions. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.6.4 and 2.6.5 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - Compilation works again on Mac OS X (bug introduced in version 2.6.4). II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - The new subpixel hinting mode is now disabled by default; it will be enabled by default in the forthcoming 2.7.x series. Main reason for reverting this feature is the principle of least surprise: a sudden change in appearance of all fonts (even if the rendering improves for almost all recent fonts) should not be expected in a new micro version of a series. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.6.3 and 2.6.4 I. IMPORTANT CHANGES - A new subpixel hinting mode has been contributed by Nikolaus Waxweiler, which is now the default rendering mode for TrueType fonts. It implements (almost everything of) version 40 of the bytecode engine. The existing code base in FreeType (the `Infinality code') was stripped to the bare minimum and all configurability removed in the name of speed and simplicity. The configurability was mainly aimed at legacy fonts like Arial, Times New Roman, or Courier. [Legacy fonts are fonts that modify vertical stems to achieve clean black-and-white bitmaps.] The new mode focuses on applying a minimal set of rules to all fonts indiscriminately so that modern and web fonts render well while legacy fonts render okay. Activation of the subpixel hinting support can be controlled with the `TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING' configuration option at compile time: If set to value 1, you get the old Infinality mode (which was never the default due to its slowness). Value 2 activates the new subpixel hinting mode, and value 3 activates both. The default is value 2. At run time, you can select the subpixel hinting mode with the `interpreter-version' property (provided you have compiled in the corresponding hinting mode); see `ftttdrv.h' for more. - Support for the following scripts has been added to the auto-hinter. Armenian, Cherokee, Ethiopic, Georgian, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Malayalam, Sinhala, Tamil II. MISCELLANEOUS - Type 42 fonts as created by LilyPond are now supported. - Minor rendering improvements in the auto-hinter. - For experimental reasons, the old CFF engine now supports all CFF operators except `random', including the deprecated Multiple Masters instructions. This allows the display of fonts like `ITCGaramondMM-It.otf' (without font variations, though). - Another round of fixes to improve handling of invalid fonts. - The `ftgrid' demo program now displays the rendered pixels also; this can be switched off with the `b' key. Selection of various LCD filtering modes can be done with the `L' key. - The demo programs have been extended to allow selection of all available TrueType bytecode engines. - A very early beta version of a new, Qt based demo program called `ftinspect' is part of the source code bundle; it will eventually supersede the other demo programs. Currently, you have to compile it manually with `qmake; make'; note that many features are still missing. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 I. IMPORTANT CHANGES - Khmer, Myanmar, Bengali, and Kannada script support has been added to the auto-hinter. II. MISCELLANEOUS - Better support of Indic scripts like Devanagari by using a top-to-bottom hinting flow. - All FreeType macros starting with two underscores have been renamed to avoid a violation of both the C and C++ standards. Example: Header macros of the form `__FOO_H__' are now called `FOO_H_'. In most cases, this should be completely transparent to the user. The exception to this is `__FTERRORS_H__', which must be sometimes undefined by the user to get FreeType error strings: Both this form and the new `FTERRORS_H_' macro are accepted for backward compatibility. - Minor improvements mainly to the Type 1 driver. - The new CFF engine now supports all Type 2 operators except `random'. - The macro `_STANDALONE_', used for compiling the B/W and smooth rasterizers as stand-alone modules, has been renamed to `STANDALONE_', since macro names starting with an underscore and followed by an uppercase letter are reserved in both C and C++. - Function `FT_Library_SetLcdFilterWeights' now also activates custom LCD filter weights (instead of just adjusting them). - Support for `unpatented hinting' has been completely removed: Consequently, the two functions `FT_Face_CheckTrueTypePatents' and `FT_Face_SetUnpatentedHinting' now return always false, doing nothing. - The `ftgamma' demo program has been modernized; the gamma grid display has been moved from `ftview' to this program. - In `ftview', it is now possible to cycle through the available LCD filtering modes. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 I. IMPORTANT CHANGES - The auto-hinter now supports stem darkening, to be controlled by the new `no-stem-darkening' and `darkening-parameters' properties. This is an experimental feature contributed by Nikolaus Waxweiler, and the interface might change in a future release. - By default, stem darkening is now switched off (for both the CFF engine and the auto-hinter). The main reason is that you need linear alpha blending and gamma correction to get correct rendering results, and the latter is not yet available in most freely available rendering stacks like X11. Applying stem darkening without proper gamma correction leads to far too dark rendering results. - The meaning of `FT_RENDER_MODE_LIGHT' has been slightly modified. It now essentially means `no hinting along the horizontal axis'; in particular, no change of glyph advance widths. Consequently, the auto-hinter is used for all scalable font formats except for CFF. It is planned that other font-specific rendering engines (TrueType, Type 1) will follow. II. MISCELLANEOUS - The default LCD filter has been changed to be normalized and color-balanced. - For better compatibility with FontConfig, function `FT_Library_SetLcdFilter' accepts a new enumeration value `FT_LCD_FILTER_LEGACY1' (which has the same meaning as `FT_LCD_FILTER_LEGACY'). - A large number of bugs have been detected by using the libFuzzer framework, which should further improve handling of invalid fonts. Thanks again to Kostya Serebryany and Bungeman! - `TT_CONFIG_OPTION_MAX_RUNNABLE_OPCODES', a new configuration option, controls the maximum number of executed opcodes within a bytecode program. You don't want to change this except for very special situations (e.g., making a library fuzzer spend less time to handle broken fonts). - The smooth renderer has been made faster. - The `ftstring' demo program now supports sub-pixel rendering; use key `l' to cycle through the LCD modes. - The `ftstring' demo program now supports colour rendering; use the `space' key to cycle through various colour combinations. - The graphical demo programs now use a default gamma value of 1.8 (instead of 1.2). ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.6 and 2.6.1 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - It turned out that for CFFs only the advance widths should be taken from the `htmx' table, not the side bearings. This bug, introduced in version 2.6.0, makes it necessary to upgrade if you are using CFFs; otherwise, you get cropped glyphs with GUI interfaces like GTK or Qt. - Accessing Type 42 fonts returned incorrect results if the glyph order of the embedded TrueType font differs from the glyph order of the Type 42 charstrings table. II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - The header file layout has been changed (again), moving all header files except `ft2build.h' into a subdirectory tree. Doing so reduces the possibility of header file name clashes (e.g., FTGL's `FTGlyph.h' with FreeType's `ftglyph.h') on case insensitive file systems like Mac OS X or Windows. Applications that use (a) the `freetype-config' script or FreeType's `freetype2.pc' file for pkg-config to get the include directory for the compiler, and (b) the documented way for header inclusion like #include <ft2build.h> #include FT_FREETYPE_H ... don't need any change to the source code. - Simple access to named instances in GX variation fonts is now available (in addition to the previous method via FreeType's MM interface). In the `FT_Face' structure, bits 16-30 of the `face_index' field hold the current named instance index for the given face index, and bits 16-30 of `style_flags' contain the number of instances for the given face index. `FT_Open_Face' and friends also understand the extended bits of the face index parameter. You need to enable TT_CONFIG_OPTION_GX_VAR_SUPPORT for this new feature. Otherwise, bits 16-30 of the two fields are zero (or are ignored). - Lao script support has been added to the auto-hinter. III. MISCELLANEOUS - The auto-hinter's Arabic script support has been enhanced. - Superscript-like and subscript-like glyphs as used by various phonetic alphabets like the IPA are now better supported by the auto-hinter. - The TrueType bytecode interpreter now runs slightly faster. - Improved support for builds with cmake. - The function `FT_CeilFix' now always rounds towards plus infinity. - The function `FT_FloorFix' now always rounds towards minus infinity. - A new load flag `FT_LOAD_COMPUTE_METRICS' has been added; it makes FreeType ignore pre-computed metrics, as needed by font validating or font editing programs. Right now, only the TrueType module supports it to ignore data from the `hdmx' table. - Another round of bug fixes to better handle broken fonts, found by Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com>. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.5.5 and 2.6 I. IMPORTANT CHANGES - Behdad Esfahbod contributed code for improved thread-safety, which results in the following model. * An `FT_Face' object can only be safely used from one thread at a time. * An `FT_Library' object can now be used without modification from multiple threads at the same time. * `FT_Face' creation and destruction with the same `FT_Library' object can only be done from one thread at a time. One can use a single `FT_Library' object across threads as long as a mutex lock is used around `FT_New_Face' and `FT_Done_Face'. Any calls to `FT_Load_Glyph' and similar API are safe and do not need the lock to be held as long as the same `FT_Face' is not used from multiple threads at the same time. - Thai script support has been added to the auto-hinter. - Arabic script support has been added to the auto-hinter. - Following OpenType version 1.7, advance widths and side bearing values in CFFs (wrapped in an SFNT structure) are now always taken from the `hmtx' table. - Following OpenType version 1.7, the PostScript font name of a CFF font (wrapped in an SFNT structure) is now always taken from the `name' table. This is also true for OpenType Collections (i.e., TTCs using CFFs subfonts instead of TTFs), where it may have a significant difference. - Fonts natively hinted for ClearType are now supported, properly handling selector index 3 of the INSTCTRL bytecode instruction. - Major improvements to the GX TrueType variation font handling. II. MISCELLANEOUS - A new auto-hinter property `warping' can switch on and off the warping code if this experimental feature is compiled in (by defining the AF_CONFIG_OPTION_USE_WARPER configuration option; by default this option is now enabled but warping is switched off). The AF_CONFIG_OPTION_USE_WARPER option itself is an old feature, available since 2006. Warping only works in `light' auto-hinting mode. The idea of the code is to slightly scale and shift a glyph along the non-hinted dimension (which is usually the horizontal axis) so that as much of its segments are aligned (more or less) to the grid. To find out a glyph's optimal scaling and shifting value, various parameter combinations are tried and scored. See file `ftautoh.h' for more; the demo programs `ftdiff', `ftview', and `ftgrid' can toggle warping with key `w'. - Some fields in the `FTC_ImageTypeRec' structure have been changed from signed to unsigned type, which better reflects the actual usage. It is also an additional means to protect against malformed input. This change doesn't break the ABI; however, it might cause compiler warnings. - Function `FT_Bitmap_New' has been renamed to `FT_Bitmap_Init', since this name better reflects its function. For backward compatibility, the old function name is still available. - Function `FT_Get_X11_Font_Format' has been renamed to `FT_Get_Font_Format', since this name better reflects its function. For backward compatibility, the old function name is still available. Additionally, the header file macro for this function has been renamed to `FT_FONT_FORMATS_H' (the old name `FT_XFREE86_H' is retained for backward compatibility). - Various improvements to the `ftgrid' demo program. . It can now display GX and MM fonts while interactively manipulating the axes (with keys F2, F3, and F4). . Anti-aliasing rendering modes can now be selected (with keys F5 and F6). . The display of point numbers can be toggled with key `D'. - Various improvements to the `ftdump' demo program. . It now displays information on MM and GX variation axes. . New command line option `-u' makes it output data in utf-8 encoding. - The `ftmulti' demo program can now handle up to six MM or GX axes. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.5.4 and 2.5.5 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - Handling of uncompressed PCF files works again (bug introduced in version 2.5.4). ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.5.3 and 2.5.4 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - A variant of vulnerability CVE-2014-2240 was identified (cf. https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?43661) and fixed in the new CFF driver. All users should upgrade. - The new auto-hinter code using HarfBuzz crashed for some invalid fonts. - Many fixes to better protect against malformed input. II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - Full auto-hinter support of the Devanagari script. - Experimental auto-hinter support of the Telugu script. - CFF stem darkening behaviour can now be controlled at build time using the eight macros CFF_CONFIG_OPTION_DARKENING_PARAMETER_{X,Y}{1,2,3,4} . - Some fields in the `FT_Bitmap' structure have been changed from signed to unsigned type, which better reflects the actual usage. It is also an additional means to protect against malformed input. This change doesn't break the ABI; however, it might cause compiler warnings. III. MISCELLANEOUS - Improvements to the auto-hinter's algorithm to recognize stems and local extrema. - Function `FT_Get_SubGlyph_Info' always returned an error even in case of success. - Version 2.5.1 introduced major bugs in the cjk part of the auto-hinter, which are now fixed. - The `FT_Sfnt_Tag' enumeration values have been changed to uppercase, e.g. `FT_SFNT_HEAD'. The lowercase variants are deprecated. This is for orthogonality with all other enumeration (and enumeration-like) values in FreeType. - `cmake' now supports builds of FreeType as an OS X framework and for iOS. - Improved project files for vc2010, introducing a property file. - The documentation generator for the API reference has been updated to produce better HTML code (with proper CSS). At the same time, the documentation got a better structure. - The FT_LOAD_BITMAP_CROP flag is obsolete; it is not used by any driver. - The TrueType DELTAP[123] bytecode instructions now work in subpixel hinting mode as described in the ClearType whitepaper (i.e., for touched points in the non-subpixel direction). - Many small improvements to the internal arithmetic routines. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.5.2 and 2.5.3 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - A vulnerability (CVE-2014-2240) was identified and fixed in the new CFF driver (cf. https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?41697). All users should upgrade. - More bug fixes related to correct positioning of composite glyphs. - Many fixes to better protect against malformed input. II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - FreeType can now use the HarfBuzz library to greatly improve the auto-hinting of fonts that use OpenType features: Many glyphs that are part of such features but don't have cmap entries are now handled properly, for example small caps or superscripts. Define the configuration macro FT_CONFIG_OPTION_USE_HARFBUZZ to activate HarfBuzz support. You need HarfBuzz version 0.9.19 or newer. Note that HarfBuzz depends on FreeType; this currently causes a chicken-and-egg problem that can be solved as follows in case HarfBuzz is not yet installed on your system. 1. Compile and install FreeType without the configuration macro FT_CONFIG_OPTION_USE_HARFBUZZ. 2. Compile and install HarfBuzz. 3. Define macro FT_CONFIG_OPTION_USE_HARFBUZZ, then compile and install FreeType again. With FreeType's `configure' script the procedure boils down to configure, build, and install FreeType, then configure, compile, and install HarfBuzz, then configure, compile, and install FreeType again (after executing `make distclean'). - All libraries FreeType depends on are now checked using the `pkg-config' configuration files first, followed by alternative methods. - The new value `auto' for the various `--with-XXX' library options (for example `--with-harfbuzz=auto') makes the `configure' script automatically link to the libraries it finds. This is now the default. - In case FreeType's `configure' script can't find a library, you can pass environment variables to circumvent pkg-config, and those variables have been harmonized as a consequence of the changes mentioned above: LIBZ -> removed; use LIBZ_CFLAGS and LIBZ_LIBS LIBBZ2 -> removed; use BZIP2_CFLAGS and BZIP2_LIBS LIBPNG_LDFLAGS -> LIBPNG_LIBS `./configure --help' shows all available environment variables. - The `freetype-config' script now understands option `--static' to emit static linking information. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.5.1 and 2.5.2 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - Improving the display of some broken TrueType fonts introduced a bug that made FreeType crash on some popular (but not fully conformant) fonts like `ahronbd.ttf'. - Another round of improvements to correct positioning and hinting of composite glyphs in TrueType fonts. II. MISCELLANEOUS - Version 2.5.1 introduced a bug in handling embedded bitmap strikes of TrueType fonts, causing garbage display under some circumstances. - The `ftgrid' demo program couldn't be compiled in non-development builds. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.5 and 2.5.1 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - For some WinFNT files, the last glyph wasn't displayed but incorrectly marked as invalid. - The vertical size of glyphs was incorrectly set after a call to `FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden', resulting in clipped glyphs. - Many fields of the `PCLT' table in SFNT based fonts (if accessed with `FT_Get_Sfnt_Table') were computed incorrectly. - In TrueType fonts, hinting of composite glyphs could sometimes deliver incorrect positions of components or even distorted shapes. II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - WOFF font format support has been added. - The auto-hinter now supports Hebrew. Greek and Cyrillic support has been improved. - Support for the forthcoming `OS/2' SFNT table version 5, as can be found e.g. in the `Sitka' font family for Windows 8.1. - The header file layout has been changed. After installation, all files are now located in `<prefix>/include/freetype2'. Applications that use (a) `freetype-config' or FreeType's `pkg-config' file to get the include directory for the compiler, and (b) the documented way for header inclusion like #include <ft2build.h> #include FT_FREETYPE_H ... don't need any change to the source code. III. MISCELLANEOUS - The stem darkening feature of the new CFF engine can now be fine-tuned with the new `darkening-parameters' property. - `ftgrid' has been updated to toggle various engines with the `H' key, similar to `ftview' and `ftdiff'. - The functionality of `ttdebug' has been greatly enhanced. . It now displays twilight, storage, and control value data; key `T' shows the twilight point table, key `S' the storage data, and key `C' the control value table. . Some keys have been reassigned from lowercase to their uppercase equivalents; for example `q' to quit the program is now `Q'. . Key `f' finishes the current function. . Key `R' restarts the debugger. . Keys `b' and `p' set a breakpoint. . Key `B' provides a function call backtrace. - Better support of ARMv7 and x86_64 processors. - Apple's `sbix' color bitmap format is now supported. - Improved auto-hinter rendering for many TrueType fonts, especially in the range 20-40ppem. - A new face flag `FT_FACE_FLAG_COLOR' has been added (to be accessed with the macro `FT_HAS_COLOR'). - `FT_Gzip_Uncompress' (modeled after zlib's `uncompress' function) has been added; this is a by-product of the newly added WOFF support. - Support for a build with `cmake' has been contributed by John Cary <cary@txcorp.com>. - Support for x64 builds with Visual C++ has been contributed by Kenneth Miller <kennethadammiller@yahoo.com> - Manual pages for most demo programs have been added. - The GETINFO bytecode instruction for TrueType fonts was buggy if used to retrieve subpixel hinting information. It was necessary to set selector bit 6 to get results for selector bits 7-10, which is wrong. - Improved computation of emulated vertical metrics for TrueType fonts. - Fixed horizontal start-up position of vertical phantom points in TrueType bytecode. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.4.12 and 2.5 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - The cache manager function `FTC_Manager_Reset' didn't flush the cache. II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - Behdad Esfahbod (on behalf of Google) contributed support for color embedded bitmaps (eg. color emoji). A new load flag, FT_LOAD_COLOR, makes FreeType load color embedded-bitmaps, following this draft specification https://color-emoji.googlecode.com/git/specification/v1.html which defines two new SFNT tables, `CBDT' and `CBLC' (named and modeled after `EBDT' and `EBLC', respectively). The color bitmaps are stored in the new FT_PIXEL_MODE_BGRA format to represent BGRA pre-multiplied sRGB images. If PNG support is available, PNG color images as defined in the same proposed specification are supported also. Note that color bitmaps are converted to grayscale if client didn't ask for color. - As announced in the previous release, the old FreeType CFF engine is now disabled by default. It can be conditionally compiled by defining the configuration macro CFF_CONFIG_OPTION_OLD_ENGINE. - As announced in the previous release, all code related to macro FT_CONFIG_OPTION_OLD_INTERNALS has been removed, thus becoming obsolete. III. MISCELLANEOUS - The property API (`FT_Property_Get' and `FT_Property_Set') is now declared as stable. The exception, however, are the experimental auto-hinter properties `glyph-to-script-map' and `fallback-script' which are subject to change in a forthcoming release. - `ftview' has been updated to support color embedded bitmaps; it can be toggled on and off with key `c'. The small cache toggle is now key `K'. - It is now possible to control the version of the TrueType hinting engine using the new `interpreter-version' property of the `truetype' module: Versions 35 and 38 (the default) are supported, which roughly corresponds to disable and enable subpixel hinting support, respectively. In both `ftview' and `ftdiff', switching between the two versions can be done with key `H'. In the `ftbench' demo program, command line option `-H' has been extended to activate the non-default interpreter version. - The `ttdebug' program has been further improved. In particular, it accepts a new command line option `-H' to select the hinting engine. - `ftdump's verbose option has been renamed to `-V'. For all demo programs, `-v' now shows version information. - Another round of TrueType subpixel hinting fixes. - The `apinames' tool can now create an import file for NetWare. - 64bit compilation of the new CFF engine was buggy. - Some fixes to improve robustness in memory-tight situations. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.4.11 and 2.4.12 - We have another CFF parsing and hinting engine! Written by Dave Arnold <darnold@adobe.com>, this work has been contributed by Adobe in collaboration with Google. It is vastly superior to the old CFF engine, and it will replace it in the next release. Right now, it is still off by default, and you have to explicitly select it using the new `hinting-engine' property of the cff driver: ... #include FT_MODULE_H #include FT_CFF_DRIVER_H FT_Library library; int engine = FT_CFF_HINTING_ADOBE; ... FT_Property_Set( library, "cff", "hinting-engine", &engine ); The code has a (mature) beta status; we encourage all users to test it and report any problems. In case you want to activate the new CFF engine unconditionally, apply this patch: --- snip --- diff --git a/src/cff/cffobjs.c b/src/cff/cffobjs.c index ebcf189..3f2ce6b 100644 --- a/src/cff/cffobjs.c +++ b/src/cff/cffobjs.c @@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ /* set default property values */ - driver->hinting_engine = FT_CFF_HINTING_FREETYPE; + driver->hinting_engine = FT_CFF_HINTING_ADOBE; driver->no_stem_darkening = FALSE; return FT_Err_Ok; --- snip --- - The macro FT_CONFIG_OPTION_OLD_INTERNALS is no longer set by default. In the next release, we will completely remove the associated code. Please update your programs in case you are still using this macro. II. MISCELLANEOUS - The (top-level) `configure' script now respects the MAKE environment variable to specify a `make' binary. For backward compatibility, GNUMAKE still overrides MAKE, though. - The `ftview' and `ftdiff' demo programs have been redesigned, showing more options permanently on the screen, among other minor improvements. - Using the `H' key, it is now possible to select the CFF engine in both `ftview' and `ftdiff'. - The new command line option `-H' for `ftbench' selects the Adobe CFF engine. - It is now possible to directly select the LCD rendering mode with the keys `A'-`F' in `ftview'. The key mapping for cycling through LCD modes has been changed from `K' and `L' to `k' and `l', and toggling custom LCD filtering is no longer mapped to key `F' but to key `L'. - In `ftdiff', key `x' toggles between layout modes: Either use the advance width (this is new and now the default) or the bounding box information to determine line breaks. - For all demo tools, the new command line option `-v' shows the version. - For the demo tools with a GUI, the new command line options `-w' and `-h' select the width and the height of the output window, respectively. - The `ttdebug' program was broken and has been reactivated. Note that this program is not compiled by default. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.4.10 and 2.4.11 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - Some vulnerabilities in the BDF implementation have been fixed. Users of this font format should upgrade. II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - Subpixel hinting support has been contributed by Infinality, based on Greg Hitchcock's whitepaper at https://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/truetypecleartype.aspx Originally, it was a separate patch available from http://www.infinality.net/blog/ and which has been integrated. Note that ClearType support is not completely implemented! In particular, full support for the options `compatible_widths', `symmetrical_smoothing, and `bgr' (via the GETINFO bytecode instruction) is missing. Activation of subpixel hinting support can be controlled with the `TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING' configuration option; it is switched off by default. This feature is still experimental; we welcome test reports! - Support for OpenType collections (OTC) has been added. - Pure CFF fonts within an SFNT wrapper are now supported. III. MISCELLANEOUS - Minor rendering improvements to the auto-hinter. - `FT_GlyphSlot_Oblique' now uses a shear angle of 12°. - Experimental support to handle `property modules', for example to control the behaviour of the auto-hinter. The API consists of two new functions, `FT_Property_Set' and `FT_Property_Get'. The code is still subject to change and should not be used for production. - The `ftdiff' demo program now supports UTF-8 encoded input files for option `-f'. - Using keys `r' and `R', you can now adjust the stroker radius in the `ftview' demo program. - Other, minor fixes and improvements. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.4.9 and 2.4.10 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - Incremental glyph loading as needed by ghostscript was broken. II. MISCELLANEOUS - A new function `FT_Outline_EmboldenXY', contributed by Alexei Podtelezhnikov. - In the `ftview' demo program, key `e' has been replaced with `x' and `y' to embolden in the horizontal and vertical direction, respectively. - The glyph spacing computation in `FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden' (and similar code in `ftview') has been improved. - Minor improvements to the TrueType bytecode interpreter and glyph loader, the auto-hinter, and the B/W rasterizer. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.4.8 and 2.4.9 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - Another round of fixes to better handle invalid fonts. Many of them are vulnerabilities (see CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144 and SA48320) so all users should upgrade. II. MISCELLANEOUS - The `ENCODING -1 <n>' format of BDF fonts is now supported. - For BDF fonts, support for the whole Unicode encoding range has been added. - Better TTF support for x_ppem != y_ppem. - `FT_Get_Advances' sometimes returned bogus values. - The demo programs no longer recognize and handle default suffixes; you now have to always specify the complete font name. - Better rendering and LCD mode cycling added to `ftview'. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.4.7 and 2.4.8 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - Some vulnerabilities in handling CID-keyed PostScript fonts have been fixed; see CVE-2011-3439. II. MISCELLANEOUS - Chris Liddell contributed a new API, `FT_Get_PS_Font_Value', to retrieve most of the dictionary keys in Type 1 fonts. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.4.6 and 2.4.7 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - Some vulnerabilities in handling Type 1 fonts have been fixed; see CVE-2011-3256. II. MISCELLANEOUS - FreeType now properly handles ZapfDingbats glyph names while constructing a Unicode character map (for fonts which don't have one). ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.4.5 and 2.4.6 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - For TrueType based fonts, the ascender and descender values were incorrect sometimes (off by a pixel if the ppem value was not a multiple of 5). Depending on the use you might now experience a different layout; the change should result in better, more consistent line spacing. - Fix CVE-2011-0226 which causes a vulnerability while handling Type 1 fonts. - BDF fonts containing glyphs with negative values for ENCODING were incorrectly rejected. This bug has been introduced in FreeType version 2.2.0. - David Bevan contributed a major revision of the FreeType stroker code: . The behaviour of FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_BEVEL has been corrected. . A new line join style, FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_MITER_FIXED, has been introduced to support PostScript and PDF miter joins. . FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_MITER_VARIABLE has been introduced as an alias for FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_MITER. . Various stroking glitches has been fixed. II. MISCELLANEOUS - SFNT bitmap fonts which contain an outline glyph for `.notdef' only no longer set the FT_FACE_FLAG_SCALABLE flag. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.4.4 and 2.4.5 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - A rendering regression for second-order Bézier curves has been fixed, introduced in 2.4.3. II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - If autohinting is not explicitly disabled, FreeType now uses the autohinter if a TrueType based font doesn't contain native hints. - The load flag FT_LOAD_IGNORE_GLOBAL_ADVANCE_WIDTH has been made redundant and is simply ignored; this means that FreeType now ignores the global advance width value in TrueType fonts. III. MISCELLANEOUS - `FT_Sfnt_Table_Info' can now return the number of SFNT tables of a font. - Support for PCF files compressed with bzip2 has been contributed by Joel Klinghed. To make this work, the OS must provide a bzip2 library. - Bradley Grainger contributed project and solution files in Visual Studio 2010 format. - Again some fixes to better handle broken fonts. - Some improvements to the B/W rasterizer. - Fixes to the cache module to improve robustness. - Just Fill Bugs contributed (experimental) code to compute blue zones for CJK Ideographs, improving the alignment of horizontal stems at the top or bottom edges. - The `ftgrid' demo program can now display autohinter segments, to be toggled on and off with key `s'. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.4.3 and 2.4.4 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - UVS support (TrueType/OpenType cmap format 14) support is fixed. This regression has been introduced in version 2.4.0. II. MISCELLANEOUS - Detect tricky fonts (e.g. MingLiU) by the lengths and checksums of Type42-persistent subtables (`cvt ', `fpgm', and `prep') when a TrueType font without family name is given. The previous fix, introduced in 2.4.3, was too rigorous, causing many subsetted fonts (mainly from PDF files) displayed badly because FreeType forced rendering with the TrueType bytecode engine instead of the autohinter. - Better support for 64bit platforms. - More fixes to improve handling of broken fonts. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.4.2 and 2.4.3 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - Fix rendering of certain cubic, S-shaped arcs. This regression has been introduced in version 2.4.0. II. MISCELLANEOUS - To fix the above mentioned rendering issue, a new spline flattening algorithm has been introduced which speeds up both conic and cubic arcs. - Handling of broken fonts has been further improved. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.4.1 and 2.4.2 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - A stack overflow in CFF Type2 CharStrings interpreter is fixed. - Handling Type 42 font deallocation was broken; additionally, the library is now more robust against malformed Type 42 fonts. II. MISCELLANEOUS - Two new functions, `FT_Reference_Library' (in FT_MODULE_H) and `FT_Reference_Face' (in FT_FREETYPE_H), have been added to simplify life-cycle management. A counter gets initialized to 1 at the time an FT_Library (or FT_Face) structure is created. The two new functions increment the respective counter. `FT_Done_Library' and `FT_Done_Face' then only destroy a library or face if the counter is 1, otherwise they simply decrement the counter. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 I. IMPORTANT CHANGES - A serious bug in the CFF font module prevented display of many glyphs in CFF fonts like `MinionPro-Regular.otf'. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.12 and 2.4.0 I. IMPORTANT CHANGES - Since May 2010, all patents regarding the TrueType bytecode interpreter have expired worldwide. Consequently, we now define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER by default (and undefine TT_CONFIG_OPTION_UNPATENTED_HINTING). - A new function `FT_Library_SetLcdFilterWeights' is available to adjust the filter weights set by `FT_Library_SetLcdFilter'. II. MISCELLANEOUS - Thanks to many reports from Robert Święcki, FreeType's stability in handling broken or damaged fonts is much improved. - Support for LCD filter control has been added to the demo programs `ftdiff' and `ftview'. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.11 and 2.3.12 I. IMPORTANT CHANGES - For `FT_Open_Face', new parameters are available to ignore preferred family names: FT_PARAM_TAG_IGNORE_PREFERRED_FAMILY and FT_PARAM_TAG_IGNORE_PREFERRED_SUBFAMILY. II. MISCELLANEOUS - Support for incremental font loading (controlled with the FT_CONFIG_OPTION_INCREMENTAL macro) is now active by default. - Better support for vertical metrics. - Various minor bug fixes. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.10 and 2.3.11 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - Version 2.3.10 broke PCF support. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.10 and 2.3.9 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - If all ASCII digits in a font have the same (unscaled) width, the autohinter respects this and won't change it. - TrueType fonts are now rasterized correctly if the horizontal and vertical resolution differ. - Type 1 fonts are now handled with increased precision internally to avoid serious rounding issues if non-integral coordinates are encountered. - Horizontally condensed CFF fonts (using the font matrix) were rendered incorrectly. This bug has been introduced after release 2.3.5. II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - Support for the SFNT cmap 13 table format (as defined by the new OpenType 1.6 specification) has been added. - B/W rasterization of well-hinted TrueType fonts at small sizes has been greatly improved. - Calculation of vertical metrics in OpenType fonts has been improved. III. MISCELLANEOUS - It is now possible to change the emboldening factor in the `ftview' demo program with keys `e' and `E'. - It is now possible to change the slant value in the `ftview' demo program with keys `s' and `S'. - The 5-levels grayscale mode of the `ftraster' module (which FreeType doesn't use by default) was broken since version 2.3.0. - Compilation of the `ftgrays' and `ftraster' modules was broken in stand-alone mode. - Various fixes for compilation on 64bit and 16bit architectures. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.9 and 2.3.8 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - Very unfortunately, FreeType 2.3.8 contained a change that broke its official ABI. The end result is that programs compiled against previous versions of the library, but dynamically linked to 2.3.8 can experience memory corruption if they call the `FT_Get_PS_Font_Info' function. We recommend all users to upgrade to 2.3.9 as soon as possible, or to downgrade to a previous release of the library if this is not an option. The origin of the bug is that a new field was added to the publicly defined `PS_FontInfoRec' structure. Unfortunately, objects of this type can be stack or heap allocated by callers of `FT_Get_PS_Font_Info', resulting in a memory buffer overwrite with its implementation in 2.3.8. If you want to know whether your code is vulnerable to this issue, simply search for the substrings `PS_FontInfo' and `PS_Font_Info' in your source code. If none is found, your code is safe and is not affected. The FreeType team apologizes for the problem. - The POSIX support of MacOS resource-fork fonts (Suitcase fonts and LaserWriter Type1 PostScript fonts) was broken in 2.3.8. If FreeType2 is built without Carbon framework, these fonts are not handled correctly. Version 2.3.7 didn't have this bug. - `FT_Get_Advance' (and `FT_Get_Advances') returned bad values for almost all font formats except TrueType fonts. - Fix a bug in the SFNT kerning table loader/parser which could crash the engine if certain malformed tables were encountered. - Composite SFNT bitmaps are now handled correctly. II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - The new functions `FT_Get_CID_Is_Internally_CID_keyed' and `FT_Get_CID_From_Glyph_Index' can be used to access CID-keyed CFF fonts via CID values. This code has been contributed by Michael Toftdal. III. MISCELLANEOUS - `FT_Outline_Get_InsideBorder' returns FT_STROKER_BORDER_RIGHT for empty outlines. This was incorrectly documented. - The `ftview' demo program now supports UTF-8 encoded strings. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.8 and 2.3.7 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - CID-keyed fonts in an SFNT wrapper were not handled correctly. - The smooth renderer produced truncated images (on the right) for outline parts with negative horizontal values. Most fonts don't contain outlines left to the y coordinate axis, but the effect was very noticeable for outlines processed with FT_Glyph_Stroke, using thick strokes. - `FT_Get_TrueType_Engine_Type' returned a wrong value if both configuration macros TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER and TT_CONFIG_OPTION_UNPATENTED_HINTING were defined. - The `face_index' field in the `FT_Face' structure wasn't initialized properly after calling FT_Open_Face and friends with a positive face index for CFFs, WinFNTs, and, most importantly, for TrueType Collections (TTCs). II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - Rudimentary support for Type 1 fonts and CID-keyed Type 1 fonts in an SFNT wrapper has been added -- such fonts are used on the Mac. The core SFNT tables `TYP1' and `CID ' are passed to the PS Type 1 and CID-keyed PS font drivers; other tables (`ALMX', `BBOX', etc.) are not supported yet. - A new interface to extract advance values of glyphs without loading their outlines has been added. The functions are called `FT_Get_Advance' and `FT_Get_Advances'; they are defined in file `ftadvanc.h' (to be accessed as FT_ADVANCES_H). - A new function `FT_Get_FSType_Flags' (in FT_FREETYPE_H) has been contributed by David Bevan to access the embedding and subsetting restriction information of fonts. III. MISCELLANEOUS - FT_MulFix is now an inlined function; by default, assembler code is provided for x86 and ARM. See FT_CONFIG_OPTION_INLINE_MULFIX and FT_CONFIG_OPTION_NO_ASSEMBLER (in ftoption.h) for more. - The handling of `tricky' fonts (this is, fonts which don't work with the autohinter, needing the font format's hinting engine) has been generalized and changed slightly: . A new face flag FT_FACE_FLAG_TRICKY indicates that the font format's hinting engine is necessary for correct rendering. The macro FT_IS_TRICKY can be used to check this flag. . FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING is now ignored for tricky fonts. To really force raw loading of such fonts (without hinting), both FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING and FT_LOAD_NO_AUTOHINT must be used -- this is something which you probably never want to do. . Tricky TrueType fonts always use the bytecode interpreter, either the patented or unpatented version. - The function `FT_GlyphSlot_Own_Bitmap' has been moved from FT_SYNTHESIS_H to FT_BITMAP_H; it is now part of the `official' API. (The functions in FT_SYNTHESIS_H are still subject to change, however.) - In the `ftdiff' demo program you can now toggle the use of FT_LOAD_IGNORE_GLOBAL_ADVANCE_WIDTH with key `a'. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.7 and 2.3.6 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - If the library was compiled on an i386 platform using gcc, and compiler option -O3 was given, `FT_MulFix' sometimes returned incorrect results which could have caused problems with `FT_Request_Metrics' and `FT_Select_Metrics', returning an incorrect descender size. - Pure CFFs without subfonts were scaled incorrectly if the font matrix was non-standard. This bug has been introduced in version 2.3.6. - The `style_name' field in the `FT_FaceRec' structure often contained a wrong value for Type 1 fonts. This misbehaviour has been introduced in version 2.3.6 while trying to fix another problem. [Note, however, that this value is informative only since the used algorithm to extract it is very simplistic.] II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - Two new macros, FT_OUTLINE_SMART_DROPOUTS and FT_OUTLINE_EXCLUDE_STUBS, have been introduced. Together with FT_OUTLINE_IGNORE_DROPOUTS (which was ignored previously) it is now possible to control the dropout mode of the `raster' module (for B&W rasterization), using the `flags' field in the `FT_Outline' structure. - The TrueType bytecode interpreter now passes the dropout mode to the B&W rasterizer. This greatly increases the output for small ppem values of many fonts like `pala.ttf'. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.6 and 2.3.5 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - A bunch of potential security problems have been found. All users should update. - Microsoft Unicode cmaps in TrueType fonts are now always preferred over Apple cmaps. This is not a bug per se, but there exist some buggy fonts created for MS which have broken Apple cmaps. This affects only the automatic selection of FreeType; it's always possible to manually select an Apple Unicode cmap if desired. - Many bug fixes to the TrueType bytecode interpreter. - Improved Mac support. - Subsetted CID-keyed CFFs are now supported correctly. - CID-keyed CFFs with subfonts which are scaled in a non-standard way are now handled correctly. - A call to FT_Open_Face with `face_index' < 0 crashed FreeType if the font was a Windows (bitmap) FNT/FON. II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - The new function `FT_Get_CID_Registry_Ordering_Supplement' gives access to those fields in a CID-keyed font. The code has been contributed by Derek Clegg. - George Williams contributed code to validate the new `MATH' OpenType table (within the `otvalid' module). The `ftvalid' demo program has been extended accordingly. - An API for cmap 14 support (for Unicode Variant Selectors, UVS) has been contributed by George Williams. - A new face flag FT_FACE_FLAG_CID_KEYED has been added, together with a macro FT_IS_CID_KEYED which evaluates to 1 if the font is CID-keyed. III. MISCELLANEOUS - Build support for symbian has been contributed. - Better WGL4 glyph name support, contributed by Sergey Tolstov. - Debugging output of the various FT_TRACEX macros is now sent to stderr. - The `ftview' demo program now provides artificial slanting too. - The `ftvalid' demo program has a new option `-f' to select the font index. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.5 and 2.3.4 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - Some subglyphs in TrueType fonts were handled incorrectly due to a missing graphics state reinitialization. - Large .Z files (as distributed with some X11 packages) weren't handled correctly, making FreeType increase the heap stack in an endless loop. - A large number of bugs have been fixed to avoid crashes and endless loops with invalid fonts. II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - The two new cache functions `FTC_ImageCache_LookupScaler' and `FTC_SBit_Cache_LookupScaler' have been added to allow lookup of glyphs using an `FTC_Scaler' object; this makes it possible to use fractional pixel sizes in the cache. The demo programs have been updated accordingly to use this feature. - A new API `FT_Get_CMap_Format' has been added to get the cmap format of a TrueType font. This is useful in handling PDF files. The code has been contributed by Derek Clegg. - The auto-hinter now produces better output by default for non-Latin scripts like Indic. This was done by using the CJK hinting module as the default instead of the Latin one. Thanks to Rahul Bhalerao for this suggestion. - A new API `FT_Face_CheckTrueTypePatents' has been added to find out whether a given TrueType font uses patented bytecode instructions. The `ft2demos' bundle contains a new program called `ftpatchk' which demonstrates its usage. - A new API `FT_Face_SetUnpatentedHinting' has been added to enable or disable the unpatented hinter. - Support for Windows FON files in PE format has been contributed by Dmitry Timoshkov. III. MISCELLANEOUS - Vincent Richomme contributed Visual C++ project files for Pocket PCs. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.4 and 2.3.3 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - A serious bug in the handling of bitmap fonts (and bitmap strikes of outline fonts) has been introduced in 2.3.3. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.3 and 2.3.2 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - Remove a serious regression in the TrueType bytecode interpreter that was introduced in version 2.3.2. Note that this does not disable the improvements introduced to the interpreter in version 2.3.2, only some ill cases that occurred with certain fonts (though a few popular ones). - The auto-hinter now ignores single-point contours for computing blue zones. This bug created `wavy' baselines when rendering text with various fonts that use these contours to model mark-attach points (these are points that are never rasterized and are placed outside of the glyph's real outline). - The `rsb_delta' and `lsb_delta' glyph slot fields are now set to zero for mono-spaced fonts. Otherwise code that uses them would essentially ruin the fixed-advance property. - Fix CVE-2007-1351 which can cause an integer overflow while parsing BDF fonts, leading to a potentially exploitable heap overflow condition. II. MISCELLANEOUS - Fixed compilation issues on some 64-bit platforms (see ChangeLog for details). - A new demo program `ftdiff' has been added to compare TrueType hinting, FreeType's auto hinting, and rendering without hinting in three columns. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.2 and 2.3.1 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - FreeType returned incorrect kerning information from TrueType fonts when the bytecode interpreter was enabled. This happened due to a typo introduced in version 2.3.0. - Negative kerning values from PFM files are now reported correctly (they were read as 16-bit unsigned values from the file). - Fixed a small memory leak when `FT_Init_FreeType' failed for some reason. - The Postscript hinter placed and sized very thin and ghost stems incorrectly. - The TrueType bytecode interpreter has been fixed to get rid of most of the rare differences seen in comparison to the Windows font loader. II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - The auto-hinter now better deals with serifs and corner cases (e.g., glyph '9' in Arial at 9pt, 96dpi). It also improves spacing adjustments and doesn't change widths for non-spacing glyphs. - Many Mac-specific functions are deprecated (but still available); modern replacements have been provided for them. See the documentation in file `ftmac.h'. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.1 and 2.3.0 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - The TrueType interpreter sometimes returned incorrect horizontal metrics due to a bug in the handling of the SHZ instruction. - A typo in a security check introduced after version 2.2.1 prevented FreeType to render some glyphs in CFF fonts. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.0 and 2.2.1 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - The PCF font loader is now much more robust while loading malformed font files. - Various memory leaks have been found and fixed. - The TrueType name loader now deals properly with some fonts that encode their names in UTF-16 (the specification was vague, and the code incorrectly assumed UCS-4). - Fixed the TrueType bytecode loader to deal properly with subtle monochrome/gray issues when scaling the CVT. Some fonts exhibited bad rendering artifacts otherwise. - `FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden' now supports vertical layouts correctly (it mangled the vertical advance height). - Fixed byte endian issues of `ftmac.c' to support Mac OS X on i386. - The PFR font loader no longer erroneously tags font files without any outlines as FT_FACE_FLAG_SCALABLE. II. NEW API FUNCTIONS - `FT_Library_SetLcdFilter' allows you to select a special filter to be applied to the bitmaps generated by `FT_Render_Glyph' if one of the FT_RENDER_MODE_LCD and FT_RENDER_MODE_LCD_V modes has been selected. This filter is used to reduce color fringes; several settings are available through the FT_LCD_FILTER_XXX enumeration. Its declaration and documentation can be found in file `include/freetype/ftlcdfil.h' (to be accessed with macro FT_LCD_FILTER_H). *IMPORTANT*: This function returns an error (FT_Err_Unimplemented_Feature) in default builds of the library for patent reasons. See below. - `FT_Get_Gasp' allows you to query the flags of the TrueType `gasp' table for a given character pixel size. This is useful to duplicate the text rendering of MS Windows when the native bytecode interpreter is enabled (which isn't the default for other patent reasons). Its declaration and documentation can be found in file `include/freetype/ftgasp.h' (to be accessed with macro FT_GASP_H). III. IMPORTANT CHANGES - The auto-hinter has been tuned a lot to improve its results with serif fonts, resulting in much better font rendering of many web pages. - The unpatented hinter is now part of the default build of the library; we have added code to automatically support `tricky' fonts that need it. This means that FreeType should `just work' with certain Asian fonts, like MingLiU, which cannot properly be loaded without a bytecode interpreter, but which fortunately do not use any of the patented bytecode opcodes. We detect these fonts by name, so please report any font file that doesn't seem to work with FreeType, and we shall do what we can to support it in a next release. Note that the API hasn't changed, so you can still force unpatented hinting with a special parameter to `FT_Open_Face' as well. This might be useful in same cases; for example, a PDF reader might present a user option to activate it to deal with certain `tricky' embedded fonts which cannot be clearly identified. If you are a developer for embedded systems, you might want to *disable* the feature to save code space by undefining TT_CONFIG_OPTION_UNPATENTED_HINTING in file `ftoption.h'. - LCD-optimized rendering is now *disabled* in all default builds of the library, mainly due to patent issues. For more information see: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2006-09/msg00064.html A new configuration macro FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING has been introduced in `ftoption.h'; manually define it in this file if you want to re-enable the feature. The change only affects the implementation, not the FreeType API. This means that clients don't need to be modified, because the library still generates LCD decimated bitmaps, but with the added constraint that R=G=B on each triplet. The displayed result should be equal to normal anti-aliased rendering. Additionally, if FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING is not defined, the new `FT_Library_SetLcdFilter' function returns the FT_Err_Unimplemented_Feature error code. - Some computation bugs in the TrueType bytecode interpreter were found, which allow us to get rid of very subtle and rare differences we had experienced with the Windows renderer. - It is now possible to cross-compile the library easily. See the file `docs/INSTALL.CROSS' for details. - The file `src/base/ftmac.c' now contains code for Mac OS X only; its deprecated function `FT_GetFile_From_Mac_Font_Name' always returns an error even if the QuickDraw framework is available. The previous version has been moved to `builds/mac/ftmac.c'. Selecting configure option `--with-quickdraw-carbon' makes the build process use the original `ftmac.c' file instead of the Mac OS X-only version. IV. MISCELLANEOUS - Various performance and memory footprint optimizations have been performed on the TrueType and CFF font loaders, sometimes with very drastic benefits (e.g., the TrueType loader is now about 25% faster; FreeType should use less heap memory under nearly all conditions). - The anti-aliased rasterizer has been optimized and is now 15% to 25% percent faster than in previous versions, depending on content. - The Type 1 loader has been improved; as an example, it now skips top-level dictionaries properly. - Better support for Mac fonts on POSIX systems, plus compilation fixes for Mac OS X on ppc64 where `ftmac.c' cannot be built. - Configuration without `--with-old-mac-fonts' does not include `ftmac.c' (this was the behaviour in FreeType version 2.1.10). - The TrueTypeGX validator (gxvalid) checks the order of glyph IDs in the kern table. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.2.1 and 2.2 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - Various integer overflows have been fixed. - PFB fonts with MacOS resource fork weren't handled correctly on non-MacOS platforms. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.2 and 2.1.10 (not released officially) I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - Vertical metrics for SFNT fonts were incorrect sometimes. - The FT_HAS_KERNING macro always returned 0. - CFF OpenType fonts didn't return correct vertical metrics for glyphs with outlines. - If FreeType was compiled without hinters, all font formats based on PS outlines weren't scaled correctly. II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - Version 2.2 no longer exposes its internals, this is, the header files located in the `include/freetype/internal' directory of the source package are not copied anymore by the `make install' command. Consequently, a number of rogue clients which directly access FreeType's internal functions and structures won't compile without modification. We provide patches for most of those rogue clients. See the following page for more information: https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/patches/rogue-patches.html Note that, as a convenience to our Unix desktop users, version 2.2 is *binary* compatible with FreeType 2.1.7, which means that installing this release on an existing distribution shall not break any working desktop. - FreeType's build mechanism has been redesigned. With GNU make it is now sufficient in most cases to edit two files: `modules.cfg', to select the library components, and the configuration file `include/freetype/config/ftoption.h' (which can be copied to the objects directory). Removing unused module directories to prevent its compilation and editing `include/freetype/config/ftmodule.h' is no longer necessary. - The LIGHT hinting algorithm produces more pleasant results. Also, using the FT_LOAD_TARGET_LIGHT flags within FT_Load_Glyph always forces auto-hinting, as a special exception. This allows you to experiment with it even if you have enabled the TrueType bytecode interpreter in your build. - The auto hinter now employs a new algorithm for CJK fonts, based on Akito Hirai's patch. Note that this only works for fonts with a Unicode charmap at the moment. - The following callback function types have changed slightly (by adding the `const' keyword where appropriate): FT_Outline_MoveToFunc FT_Outline_LineToFunc FT_Outline_ConicToFunc FT_Outline_CubicToFunc FT_SpanFunc FT_Raster_RenderFunc FT_Glyph_TransformFunc FT_Renderer_RenderFunc FT_Renderer_TransformFunc Note that this doesn't affect binary backward compatibility. - On MacOS, new APIs have been added as replacements for legacy APIs: `FT_New_Face_From_FSRef' for `FT_New_Face_From_FSSpec', and `FT_GetFile_From_Mac_ATS_Name' for `FT_GetFile_From_Mac_Name'. Legacy APIs are still available, if FreeType is built without disabling them. - A new API `FT_Select_Size' has been added to select a bitmap strike by its index. Code using other functions to select bitmap strikes should be updated to use this function. - A new API `FT_Get_SubGlyph_Info' has been added to retrieve subglyph data. This can be used by rogue clients which used to access the internal headers to get the corresponding data. - In 2.1.10, the behaviour of `FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes' was changed for BDF/PCF fonts, and only for them. This causes inconsistency. In this release, we undo the change. The intent of the change in 2.1.10 is to allow size selection through real dimensions, which can now be done through `FT_Request_Size'. - Some security issues were discovered and fixed in the CFF and Type 1 loader, causing crashes of FreeType by malformed font files. III. MISCELLANEOUS - The documentation for FT_LOAD_TARGET_XXX and FT_RENDER_MODE_XXX values now better reflects its usage and differences: One set is used to specify the hinting algorithm, the other to specify the pixel rendering mode. - `FT_New_Face' and `FT_New_Face_From_FSSpec' in ftmac.c have been changed to count supported scalable faces (sfnt, LWFN) only, and to return the number of available faces via face->num_faces. Unsupported bitmap faces (fbit, NFNT) are ignored. - builds/unix/configure has been improved for MacOS X. It now automatically checks available functions in Carbon library, and prepare to use newest functions by default. Options to specify the dependencies of each Carbon APIs (FSSpec, FSRef, old/new QuickDraw, ATS) are available too. By manual disabling of all QuickDraw functionality, FreeType can be built without `deprecated function' warnings on MacOS 10.4.x, but FT_GetFile_Mac_Name in ftmac.c then is changed to a dummy function, and returns an `unimplemented' error. For details see builds/mac/README. - SFNT cmap handling has been improved, mainly to run much faster with CJK fonts. - A new function `FT_Get_TrueType_Engine_Type (declared in `FT_MODULE_H') is provided to determine the status of the TrueType bytecode interpreter compiled into the library (patented, unpatented, unimplemented). - Vertical metrics of glyphs are synthesized if the font does not provide such information. You can tell whether the metrics are synthesized or not by checking the FT_FACE_FLAG_VERTICAL flag of the face. - The demo programs `ftview' and `ftstring' have been rewritten for better readability. `ftview' has a new switch `-p' to test FT_New_Memory_Face (instead of FT_New_Face). - FreeType now honours bit 1 in the `head' table of TrueType fonts (meaning `left sidebearing point at x=0'). This helps with some buggy fonts. - Rudimentary support for Adobe's new `SING Glyphlet' format. See https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/font/pdfs/5148.SING_Tutorial.pdf for more information. - The `ftdump' program from the `ft2demos' bundle now shows some information about charmaps. It also supports a new switch `-v' to increase verbosity. - Better AFM support. This includes track kerning support. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.10 and 2.1.9 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - The size comparison for BDF and PCF files could fail sometimes. - Some CFF files were still not loaded correctly. Patch from Derek Noonburg. - The stroker still had some serious bugs. - Boris Letocha fixed a bug in the TrueType interpreter: The NPUSHW instruction wasn't skipped correctly in IF clauses. Some fonts like `Helvetica 75 Bold' failed. - Another serious bug in handling TrueType hints caused many distortions. It has been introduced in version 2.1.8, and it is highly recommended to upgrade. - FreeType didn't properly parse empty Type 1 glyphs. - An unbound dynamic buffer growth was fixed in the PFR loader. - Several bugs have been fixed in the cache sub-system. - FreeType behaved incorrectly when resizing two distinct but very close character pixel sizes through `FT_Set_Char_Size' (Savannah bug #12263). - The auto-hinter didn't work properly for fonts without a Unicode charmap -- it even refused to load the glyphs. II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - Many fixes have been applied to drastically reduce the amount of heap memory used by FreeType, especially when using memory-mapped font files (which is the default on Unix systems which support them). - The auto-hinter has been replaced with a new module, called the `auto-fitter'. It consumes less memory than its predecessor, and it is prepared to support non-latin scripts better in next releases. - George Williams contributed code to read kerning data from PFM files. - FreeType now uses the TT_NAME_ID_PREFERRED_FAMILY and TT_NAME_ID_PREFERRED_SUBFAMILY strings (if available) for setting family and style in SFNT fonts (patch from Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter). - A new API `FT_Sfnt_Table_Info' (in FT_TRUETYPE_TABLES_H) has been added to retrieve name and size information of SFNT tables. - A new API `FT_OpenType_Validate' (in FT_OPENTYPE_VALIDATE_H) has been added to validate OpenType tables (BASE, GDEF, GPOS, GSUB, JSTF). After validation it is no longer necessary to check for errors in those tables while accessing them. Note that this module might be moved to another library in the future to avoid a tight dependency between FreeType and the OpenType specification. - A new API in FT_BITMAP_H (`FT_Bitmap_New', `FT_Bitmap_Convert', `FT_Bitmap_Copy', `FT_Bitmap_Embolden', `FT_Bitmap_Done') has been added. Its use is to convert an FT_Bitmap structure in 1bpp, 2bpp, 4bpp, or 8bpp format into another 8bpp FT_Bitmap, probably using a different pitch, and to further manipulate it. - A new API `FT_Outline_Embolden' (in FT_OUTLINE_H) gives finer control how outlines are emboldened. - `FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden' (in FT_SYNTHESIS_H) now handles bitmaps also (code contributed by Chia I Wu). Note that this function is still experimental and may be replaced with a better API. - The method how BDF and PCF bitmap fonts are accessed has been refined. Formerly, FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes and FT_Set_Char_Size were synonyms in FreeType's BDF and PCF interface. This has changed now. FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes should be used to select the actual font dimensions (the `strike', which is the sum of the `FONT_ASCENT' and `FONT_DESCENT' properties), while FT_Set_Char_Size selects the `nominal' size (the `PIXELSIZE' property). In both functions, the width parameter is ignored. III. MISCELLANEOUS - The BDF driver no longer converts all returned bitmaps with a depth of 2bpp or 4bpp to a depth of 8bpp. The documentation has not mentioned this explicitly, but implementors might have relied on this after looking into the source files. - A new option `--ftversion' has been added to freetype-config to return the FreeType version. - The memory debugger has been updated to dump allocation statistics on all allocation sources in the library. This is useful to spot greedy allocations when loading and processing fonts. - We removed a huge array of constant pointers to constant strings in the `psnames' module. The problem was that compilations in PIC mode (i.e., when generating a Unix shared object/dll) put the array into the non-shared writable section of the library since absolute pointers are not relocatable by nature. This reduces the memory consumption by approximately 16KByte per process linked to FreeType. We now also store the array in a compressed form (as a trie) which saves about 20KByte of code as well. - Kirill Smelkov provided patches to make src/raster/ftraster.c compile stand-alone again. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.9 and 2.1.8 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - The function `FT_Get_CharMap_Index' was only declared, without any real code. For consistency, it has been renamed to `FT_Get_Charmap_Index'. (This function is needed to implement cmap caches.) - `FT_Outline_Get_BBox' sometimes returned incorrect values for conic outlines (e.g., for TrueType fonts). - Handling of `bhed' table has been fixed. - The TrueType driver with enabled byte code interpreter sometimes returned artifacts due to incorrect rounding. This bug has been introduced after version 2.1.4. - The BDF driver dropped the last glyph in the font. - The BDF driver now uses the DEFAULT_CHAR property (if available) to select a glyph shape for the undefined glyph. - The stroker failed for closed outlines and single points. II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - George Williams contributed code to handle Apple's font distortion technology found in GX fonts (`avar', `cvar', `fvar', and `gvar' tables; the Multiple Masters API has been slightly extended to cope with the new functionality). - The `FT_GlyphSlotRec' structure has been extended: The elements `lsb_delta' and `rsb_delta' give the difference between hinted and unhinted left and right side bearings if autohinting is active. Using those values can improve the inter-letter spacing considerably. See the documentation of `FT_GlyphSlotRec' and the `ftstring' demo program how to use it. - Loading TrueType and Type 1 fonts has been made much faster. - The stroker is no longer experimental (but the cache subsystem still is). III. MISCELLANEOUS - A new documentation file `formats.txt' describes various font formats supported (and not supported) by FreeType. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.8 and 2.1.7 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - The native TrueType hinter contained some bugs which prevented some fonts to be rendered correctly, most notably Legendum.otf. - The PostScript hinter now produces improved results. - The linear advance width and height values were incorrectly rounded, making them virtually unusable if not loaded with FT_LOAD_LINEAR_DESIGN. - Indexing CID-keyed CFF fonts is now working: The glyph index is correctly treated as a CID, similar to FreeType's CID driver module. Note that CID CMap support is still missing. - The FT_FACE_FLAG_GLYPH_NAMES flag is now set correctly for all font formats. - Some subsetted Type 1 fonts weren't parsed correctly. This bug has been introduced in 2.1.7. In summary, the Type 1 parser has become more robust. - Non-decimal numbers weren't parsed correctly in PS fonts. - The WinFNT driver now correctly reports FT_ENCODING_NONE for all but one encoding. Use the new FT_WinFNT_ID_XXX values together with `FT_Get_WinFNT_Header' to get the WinFNT charset ID. - The descender metrics (face->size->metrics.descender) for WinFNT bitmap fonts had the wrong sign. - The (emulated) `seac' support for CFF fonts was broken. - The `flex' operator didn't work for CFF fonts. - PS glyphs which use the `hintmask' operator haven't been rendered correctly in some cases. - Metrics for BDF and PCF bitmap font formats have been fixed. - Autohinting is now disabled for glyphs which are vertically distorted or mirrored (using a transformation matrix). This fixes a bug which produced zero-height glyphs. - The `freetype-config' script now handles --prefix and --exec-prefix correctly; it also returns the proper --rpath (or -R) value if FreeType has been built as a shared library. II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - Both PCF and BDF drivers now handle the SETWIDTH_NAME and ADD_STYLE_NAME properties. Values are appended to face->style_name; example: `Bold SemiCondensed'. - The PCF driver now handles bitmap fonts compressed with the LZW algorithm (extension .pcf.Z, compressed with `compress'). - A new API function `FT_Get_CMap_Language_ID' (declared in `tttables.h') is available to get the language ID of a TrueType/SFNT cmap. - The hexadecimal format of data after the `StartData' command in CID-keyed Type 1 fonts is now supported. While this can't occur in file-based fonts, it can happen in document-embedded resources of PostScript documents. - Embedded bitmaps in SFNT-based CFF fonts are now supported. - A simple API is now available to control FreeType's tracing mechanism if compiled with FT_DEBUG_LEVEL_TRACE. See the file `ftdebug.h' for more details. - YAMATO Masatake contributed improved handling of MacOS resource forks on non-MacOS platforms (for example, Linux can mount MacOS file systems). - Support for MacOS has been improved; there is now a new function `FT_New_Face_From_FSSpec' similar to `FT_New_Face' except that it accepts an FSSpec instead of a path. - The cache sub-system has been rewritten. - There is now support for deinstallation of faces. - A new API function `FTC_Manager_RemoveFaceID' has been added to delete all `idle' nodes that correspond to a given FTC_FaceID. All `locked' nodes (i.e., those with a reference count > 0), will be modified to prevent them from appearing in further lookups (they will be cleaned normally when their reference count reaches 0). - There is now support for point scaling (i.e., providing character sizes in points + dpis, instead of pixels). - Three abstract cache classes are now available: FTC_GCache: Used to store one glyph item per cache node, with the ability to group common attributes into `families'. This replaces the old FTC_GlyphCache class. FTC_ICache: Used to store one FT_Glyph per cache node. This extends FTC_GCache. Family definition, family comparison, and glyph loading are however left to sub-classes. FTC_SCache: Used to store up to 16 small bitmaps per cache node. This extends FTC_GCache. Family definition, family comparison and glyph loading are however left to sub-classes. - The file `src/cache/ftcbasic.c' implements: FTC_ImageCache: Extends FTC_ICache; implements family definitions and glyph loading similar to the old API. FTC_SBitCache: Extends FTC_SCache, implements family definitions and glyph loading similar to the old API Client applications should be able to extend FTC_GCache, FTC_ICache, or FTC_SCache much more easily (i.e., less code to write, and less callbacks). For example, one could envision caches that are capable of storing transformed (obliqued), stroked, emboldened, or colored glyph images. Use `ftcbasic.c' as an example. - All public APIs are now in `include/freetype/ftcache.h', (to be accessed as `FT_CACHE_H'). The contents of `include/freetype/cache/' is only needed by applications that wish to implement their own caches. - There were some major performance improvements through the use of various programming tricks. Cache hits are up to 70% faster than in the old code. - The FTC_CMapCache has been simplified. Charmaps can only be accessed by index right now. There is also a new API named `FT_Charmap_GetIndex' for this purpose. - The demo programs have been updated to the new code. The previous versions will not work with the current one. - Using an invalid face index in FT_Open_Face and friends now causes an error even if the font contains a single face only. III. MISCELLANEOUS - Wolfgang Domröse contributed support files for building FreeType on the Atari using the PureC compiler. Note that the Atari is a 16bit platform. - Vitaliy Pasternak contributed project files for VS.NET 2003. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.7 and 2.1.6 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - Updated to newest libtool version, fixing build problems on various platforms. - On Unix platforms, `make install' didn't copy the correct `ftconfig.h' file. Note that version 2.1.7 contains the same library C source code as version 2.1.6. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.6 and 2.1.5 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - The PFR font driver didn't load kerning tables correctly, and the functions in FT_PFR_H didn't work at all. - Type 1 font files in binary format (PFB) with an end-of-file indicator weren't accepted by the FreeType engine. - Fonts which contain /PaintType and /StrokeWidth no longer cause a segfault. This bug has been introduced in version 2.1.5. - Fonts loaded with FT_LOAD_RENDER no longer cause strange results. This bug has been introduced in version 2.1.5. - Some Windows (bitmap) FNT/FON files couldn't be handled correctly. II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - The internal module API has been heavily changed in favor of massive simplifications within the font engine. This also means that authors of third-party modules must adapt their code to the new scheme. NOTE: THE NEW SCHEME IS NOT COMPLETED YET. PLEASE WAIT UNTIL A FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT! - The PostScript parser has been enhanced to handle comments and strings correctly. Additionally, more syntax forms are recognized. - Added the optional unpatented hinting system for TrueType. It allows typefaces which need hinting to produce correct glyph forms (e.g., Chinese typefaces from Dynalab) to work acceptably without infringing Apple patents. This system is compiled only if TT_CONFIG_OPTION_COMPILE_UNPATENTED_HINTING is defined in ftoption.h (activated by default). III. MISCELLANEOUS - There is now a guard in the public header files to protect against inclusion of freetype.h from FreeType 1. - Direct inclusion of freetype.h and other public header files no longer works. You have to use the documented scheme #include <ft2build.h> #include FT_FREETYPE_H to load freetype.h with a symbolic name. This protects against renaming of public header files (which shouldn't happen but actually has, avoiding two public header files with the same name). ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.5 and 2.1.4 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - Parsing the /CIDFontName field now removes the leading slash to be in sync with other font drivers. - gzip support was buggy. Some fonts could not be read. - Fonts which have nested subglyphs more than one level deep no longer cause a segfault. - Creation of synthetic cmaps for fonts in CFF format was broken partially. - Numeric font dictionary entries for synthetic fonts are no longer overwritten. - The font matrix wasn't applied to the advance width for Type1, CID, and CFF fonts. This caused problems when loading certain synthetic Type 1 fonts like `Helvetica Narrow'. - The test for the charset registry in BDF and PCF fonts is now case-insensitive. - FT_Vector_Rotate sometimes returned strange values due to rounding errors. - The PCF driver now returns the correct number of glyphs (including an artificial `notdef' glyph at index 0). - FreeType now supports buggy CMaps which are contained in many CJK fonts from Dynalab. - Opening an invalid font on a Mac caused a segfault due to double-freeing memory. - BDF fonts with more than 32768 glyphs weren't supported properly. II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - Accessing bitmap font formats has been synchronized. To do that the FT_Bitmap_Size structure has been extended to contain new fields `size', `x_ppem', and `y_ppem'. - The FNT driver now returns multiple faces, not multiple strikes. - The `psnames' module has been updated to the Adobe Glyph List version 2.0. - The `psnames' module now understands `uXXXX[X[X]]' glyph names. - The algorithm for guessing the font style has been improved. - For fonts in SFNT format, root->height is no longer increased if the line gap is zero. There exist fonts (containing e.g. form drawing characters) which intentionally have a zero line gap value. - ft_glyph_bbox_xxx flags are now deprecated in favour of FT_GLYPH_BBOX_XXX. - ft_module_xxx flags are now deprecated in favour of FT_MODULE_XXX. - FT_ENCODING_MS_{SJIS,GB2312,BIG5,WANSUNG,JOHAB} are now deprecated in favour of FT_ENCODING_{SJIS,GB2312,BIG5,WANSUNG,JOHAB} -- those encodings are not specific to Microsoft. III. MISCELLANEOUS - The autohinter has been further improved; for example, `m' glyphs now retain its vertical symmetry. - Partial support of Mac fonts on non-Mac platforms. - `make refdoc' (after first `make') builds the HTML documentation. You need Python for this. - The make build system should now work more reliably on DOS-like platforms. - Support for EMX gcc and Watson C/C++ compilers on MS-DOS has been added. - Better VMS build support. - Support for the pkg-config package by providing a `freetype.pc' file. - New configure option --with-old-mac-fonts for Darwin. - Some source files have been renamed (mainly to fit into the 8.3 naming scheme). ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.4 and 2.1.3 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - Updated to newest libtool version, fixing build problems on various platforms. - A fix in the Gzip stream reader: It couldn't read certain .gz files properly due to a small typo. In certain cases, FreeType could also loop endlessly when trying to load tiny gzipped files. - The configure script now tries to use the system-wide zlib when it finds one (instead of the copy found in src/gzip). And `freetype-config' has been updated to return relevant flags in this case when invoked with `--libs' (e.g. `-lzlib'). - Certain fonts couldn't be loaded by 2.1.3 because they lacked a Unicode charmap (e.g. SYMBOL.TTF). FreeType erroneously rejected them. - The CFF loader was modified to accept fonts which only contain a subset of their reference charset. This prevented the correct use of PDF-embedded fonts. - The logic to detect Unicode charmaps has been modified. This is required to support fonts which include both 16-bit and 32-bit charmaps (like very recent asian ones) using the new 10 and 12 SFNT formats. - The TrueType loader now limits the depth of composite glyphs. This is necessary to prevent broken fonts to break the engine by blowing the stack with recursive glyph definitions. - The CMap cache is now capable of managing UCS-4 character codes that are mapped through extended charmaps in recent TrueType/OpenType fonts. - The cache sub-system now properly manages out-of-memory conditions instead of blindly reporting them to the caller. This means that it will try to empty the cache before restarting its allocations to see if that can help. - The PFR driver didn't return the list of available embedded bitmaps properly. - There was a nasty memory leak when using embedded bitmaps in certain font formats. II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - David Chester contributed some enhancements to the auto-hinter that significantly increase the quality of its output. The Postscript hinter was also improved in several ways. - The FT_RENDER_MODE_LIGHT render mode was implemented. - A new API function called `FT_Get_BDF_Property' has been added to FT_BDF_H to retrieve BDF properties from BDF _and_ PCF font files. THIS IS STILL EXPERIMENTAL, since it hasn't been properly tested yet. - A Windows FNT specific API has been added, mostly to access font headers. This is used by Wine. - TrueType tables without an `hmtx' table are now tolerated when an incremental interface is used. This happens for certain Type42 fonts passed from Ghostscript to FreeType. - The PFR font driver is now capable of returning the font family and style names when they are available (instead of the sole `FontID'). This is performed by parsing an *undocumented* portion of the font file! III. MISCELLANEOUS - The path stroker in FT_STROKER_H has entered beta stage. It now works very well, but its interface might change a bit in the future. More on this in later releases. - The documentation for FT_Size_Metrics didn't appear properly in the API reference. - The file docs/VERSION.DLL has been updated to explain versioning with FreeType (i.e., comparing release/libtool/so numbers, and how to use them in autoconf scripts). - The installation documentation has been seriously revamped. Everything is now in the `docs' directory. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.3 and 2.1.2 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - FT_Vector_Transform had been incorrectly modified in 2.1.2, resulting in incorrect transformations being applied (for example, rotations were processed in opposite angles). - The format 8 and 12 TrueType charmap enumeration routines have been fixed (FT_Get_Next_Char returned invalid values). - The PFR font driver returned incorrect advance widths if the outline and metrics resolution defined in the font file were different. - FT_Glyph_To_Bitmap now returns successfully when called with an FT_BitmapGlyph argument (it previously returned an error). - A bug in the Type 1 loader that prevented valid font bounding boxes to be loaded from multiple master fonts. - The SFNT validation code has been rewritten. FreeType can now load `broken' fonts that were usable on Windows, but not with previous versions of the library. - The computation of bearings in the BDF driver has been fixed. - The Postscript hinter crashed when trying to hint certain glyphs (more precisely, when trying to apply hints to an empty glyph outline). - The TrueType glyph loader now supports composites in `Apple format' (they differ slightly from Microsoft/OpenType ones in the way transformation offsets are computed). - FreeType was very slow at opening certain asian CID/CFF fonts, due to fixed increment in dynamic array re-allocations. This has been changed to exponential behaviour to get acceptable performance. II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - The PCF driver now supports gzip-compressed font files natively. This means that you will be able to use all these bitmap fonts that come with XFree86 with FreeType (and libXft/libXft2, by extension). - The automatic and postscript hinters have both been updated. This results in a relatively important increase of rendering quality since many nasty defaults have been suppressed. Please visit the web page: https://www.freetype.org/hinting/smooth-hinting.html for additional details on this topic. - The `load_flags' parameter of `FT_Load_Glyph' is now an FT_Int32 (instead of just being an FT_Int). This breaks source and binary compatibility for 16bit systems only, while retaining both of them for 32 and 64 bit ones. Some new flags have been added consequently: FT_LOAD_NO_AUTOHINT :: Disable the use of the auto-hinter (but not native format hinters). FT_LOAD_TARGET_NORMAL :: Hint and render for normal anti-aliased displays. FT_LOAD_TARGET_MONO :: Hint and render for 1-bit displays. FT_LOAD_TARGET_LCD :: Hint and render for horizontal RGB or BGR sub-pixel displays (like LCD screens). THIS IS STILL EXPERIMENTAL! FT_LOAD_TARGET_LCD_V :: Same as FT_LOAD_TARGET_LCD, for vertical sub-pixel displays (like rotated LCD screens). THIS IS STILL EXPERIMENTAL! FT_LOAD_MONOCHROME is still supported, but only affects rendering, not the hinting. Note that the `ftview' demo program available in the `ft2demos' package has been updated to support LCD-optimized display on non-paletted displays (under Win32 and X11). - The PFR driver now supports embedded bitmaps (all formats supported), and returns correct kerning metrics for all glyphs. - The TrueType charmap loader now supports certain `broken' fonts that load under Windows without problems. - The cache API has been slightly modified (it's still a beta!): - The type FTC_ImageDesc has been removed; it is now replaced by FTC_ImageTypeRec. Note that one of its fields is a `load_flag' parameter for FT_Load_Glyph. - The field `num_grays' of FT_SBitRec has been changed to `max_grays' in order to fit within a single byte. Its maximum value is thus 255 (instead of 256 as previously). III. MISCELLANEOUS - Added support for the DESTDIR variable during `make install'. This simplifies packaging of FreeType. - Included modified copies of the ZLib sources in `src/gzip' in order to support gzip-compressed PCF fonts. We do not use the system-provided zlib for now, though this is a probable enhancement for future releases. - The DocMaker tool used to generate the on-line API reference has been completely rewritten. It is now located in `src/tools/docmaker/docmaker.py'. Features: - better cross-referenced output - more polished output - uses Python regular expressions (though it didn't speed the program) - much more modular structure, which allows for different `backends' in order to generate HTML, XML, or whatever format. One can regenerate the API reference by calling: python src/tools/docmaker/docmaker.py \ --prefix=ft2 \ --title=FreeType-2.1.3 \ --output=<outputdirectory> include/freetype/*.h \ include/freetype/config/*.h \ include/freetype/cache/*.h - A new, experimental, support for incremental font loading (i.e., loading of fonts where the glyphs are not in the font file itself, but provided by an external component, like a Postscript interpreter) has been added by Graham Asher. This is still work in progress, however. - A new, EXPERIMENTAL, path stroker has been added. It doesn't suffer from severe rounding errors and treat bezier arcs directly. Still work in progress (i.e. not part of the official API). See the file <freetype/ftstroker.h> for some of the details. - The massive re-formatting of sources and internal re-design is still under-way. Many internal functions, constants, and types have been renamed. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.2 and 2.1.1 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - Many font drivers didn't select a Unicode charmap by default when a new face was opened (with the FT_CONFIG_OPTION_USE_CMAPS options enabled), causing many applications to not be able to display text correctly with the 2.1.x releases. - The PFR driver had a bug in its composite loading code that produces incorrectly placed accents with many fonts. - The Type42 driver crashed sometimes due to a nasty bug. - The Type 1 custom encoding charmap didn't handle the case where the first glyph index wasn't 0. - A serious typo in the TrueType composite loader produced incorrectly placed glyphs in fonts like `Wingdings' and a few others. II. MISCELLANEOUS - The Win32 Visual C++ project file has been updated to include the PFR driver as well. - `freetype.m4' is now installed by default by `make install' on Unix systems. - The function FT_Get_PS_Font_Info now works with CID and Type42 fonts as well. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.1 and 2.1.0 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - The `version_info' returned by `freetype-config' in 2.1.0 returned an invalid value. It now returns 9:1:3 (2.0.9 returned 9:0:3). - Version 2.1.0 couldn't be linked against applications on Win32 and Amiga systems due to a new debug function that wasn't properly propagated to the system-specific directory in `builds'. - Various MacOS and Mac OS X specific fixes. - Fixed a bug in the TrueType charmap validation routines that made version 2.1.0 too restrictive -- many popular fonts have been rejected. - There was still a very small difference between the monochrome glyph bitmaps produced by FreeType 1.x and FreeType 2.x with the bytecode interpreter enabled. This was caused by an invalid flag setting in the TrueType glyph loader, making the rasterizer change its drop-out control mode. Now the results should _really_ be completely identical. - The TrueType name table loader has been improved to support many popular though buggy Asian fonts. It now ignores empty name entries, invalid pointer offsets and a few other incorrect subtleties. Moreover, name strings are now loaded on demand, which reduces the memory load of many faces (e.g. the ARIAL.TTF font file contains a 10kByte name table with 70 names). - Fixed a bug in the Postscript hinter that prevented family blues substitution to happen correctly. II. NEW FEATURES - Three new font drivers in this release: * A BDF font driver, contributed by Franco Zappa Nardelli, heavily modified by Werner Lemberg. It also supports anti-aliased bitmaps (using a slightly extended BDF format). * A Type42 font driver, contributed by Roberto Alameda. It is still experimental but seems to work relatively well. * A PFR font driver, contributed by David Turner himself. It doesn't support PFR hinting -- note that BitStream has at least two patents on this format! III. MISCELLANEOUS - The cache sub-system has been optimized in important ways. Cache hits are now significantly faster. For example, using the CMap cache is about twice faster than calling FT_Get_Char_Index on most platforms. Similarly, using an SBit cache is about five times faster than loading the bitmaps from a bitmap file, and 300 to 500 times faster than generating them from a scalable format. Note that you should recompile your sources if you designed a custom cache class for the FT2 Cache subsystem, since the changes performed are source, but not binary, compatible. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.0 and 2.0.9 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - The TrueType bytecode interpreter has been fixed to produce _exactly_ the same output as FreeType 1.x. Previous differences were due to slightly distinct fixed-point computation routines used to perform dot products and vector length measurements. It seems that native TrueType hinting is _extremely_ sensitive to rounding errors. The required vector computation routines have been optimized and placed within the `ttinterp.c' file. - Fixed the parsing of accelerator tables in the PCF font driver. - Fixed the Type1 glyph loader routine used to compute the font's maximum advance width. II. NEW FEATURES - The `configure' script used on Unix systems has been modified to check that GNU Make is being used to build the library. Otherwise, it will display a message proposing to use the GNUMAKE environment variable to name it. The Unix-specific file README.UNX has been modified accordingly. III. MISCELLANEOUS - The FreeType License in `docs/FTL.TXT' has been updated to include a proposed preferred disclaimer. If you are using FreeType in your products, you are encouraged (but not mandated) to use the following text in your documentation: """ Portions of this software are copyright © 1996-2002 The FreeType Project (www.freetype.org). All rights reserved. """ - The default size of the render pool has been reduced to 16kByte. This shouldn't result in any noticeable performance penalty, unless you are using the engine as-is to render very large and complex glyphs. - The FreeType 2 redesign has begun. More information can be found at this URL: https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/redesign.html The following internal changes have been performed within the sources of this release: - Many internal types have been renamed to increase consistency. The following should be true, except for public types: * All structure types have a name ending in `Rec' (short for `record'). * A pointer-to-structure type has the same name as the structure, _without_ the `Rec' suffix. Example: typedef struct FooRec_ { ... } FooRec, *Foo; - Many internal macros have been renamed to increase consistency. The following should be true: * All macros have a name beginning with `FT_'. This required a few changes like ALLOC => FT_ALLOC FREE => FT_FREE REALLOC => FT_REALLOC * All macros are completely UPPERCASE. This required a few changes like: READ_Short => FT_READ_SHORT NEXT_Short => FT_NEXT_SHORT GET_ULongLE => FT_GET_ULONG_LE MEM_Set => FT_MEM_SET MEM_Copy => FT_MEM_COPY etc. * Whenever possible, all macro names follow the FT_<OBJECT>_<METHOD> pattern. For example ACCESS_Frame => FT_FRAME_ENTER FORGET_Frame => FT_FRAME_EXIT EXTRACT_Frame => FT_FRAME_EXTRACT RELEASE_Frame => FT_FRAME_RELEASE FILE_Pos => FT_STREAM_POS FILE_Seek => FT_STREAM_SEEK FILE_Read => FT_STREAM_READ FILE_ReadAt => FT_STREAM_READ_AT READ_Fields => FT_STREAM_READ_FIELDS - Many internal functions have been renamed to follow the FT_<Object>_<Method> pattern. For example: FT_Seek_Stream => FT_Stream_Seek FT_Read_Stream_At => FT_Stream_ReadAt FT_Done_Stream => FT_Stream_Close FT_New_Stream => FT_Stream_Open FT_New_Memory_Stream => FT_Stream_OpenMemory FT_Extract_Frame => FT_Stream_ExtractFrame Note that method names do not contain `_'. - The FT_ALLOC_ARRAY and FT_REALLOC_ARRAY have been replaced with FT_NEW_ARRAY and FT_RENEW_ARRAY which do not take a type as the fourth argument. Instead, the array element type size is computed automatically from the type of the target pointer used. - A new object class, FT_CMap, has been introduced. These internal objects are used to model character maps. This eases the support of additional charmap types within the engine. - A new configuration file named `ftstdlib.h' has been added to `include/freetype/config'. It is used to define aliases for _every_ routine of the ISO C library that the font engine uses. Each aliases has a `ft_' prefix (e.g. `ft_strlen' is an alias for `strlen'). This is used to ease the porting of FreeType 2 to exotic runtime environments where the ISO C Library isn't available (e.g. XFree86 extension modules). More details are available in the `ChangeLog' file. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.9 and 2.0.8 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - Certain fonts like `foxjump.ttf' contain broken name tables with invalid entries and wild offsets. This caused FreeType to crash when trying to load them. The SFNT `name' table loader has been fixed to be able to support these strange fonts. Moreover, the code in charge of processing this table has been changed to always favour Windows-formatted entries over other ones. Hence, a font that works on Windows but not on the Mac will load cleanly in FreeType and report accurate values for Family & PostScript names. - The CID font driver has been fixed. It unfortunately returned a Postscript Font name with a leading slash, as in `/MunhwaGothic-Regular'. - FreeType 2 should now compile fine on AIX 4.3.3 as a shared library. - A bug in the Postscript hinter has been found and fixed, removing un-even stem widths at small pixel sizes (like 14-17). This improves the quality of a certain number of Postscript fonts. II. NEW FEATURES - A new function named `FT_Library_Version' has been added to return the current library's major, minor, and patch version numbers. This is important since the macros FREETYPE_MAJOR, FREETYPE_MINOR, and FREETYPE_PATCH cannot be used when the library is dynamically linked by a program. - Two new APIs have been added: `FT_Get_First_Char' and `FT_Get_Next_Char'. Together, these can be used to iterate efficiently over the currently selected charmap of a given face. Read the API reference for more details. III. MISCELLANEOUS - The FreeType sources are under heavy internal re-factoring. As a consequence, we have created a branch named `STABLE' on the CVS to hold all future releases/fixes in the 2.0.x family. The HEAD branch now contains the re-factored sources and shouldn't be used for testing or packaging new releases. In case you would like to access the 2.0.9 sources from our CVS repository, use the tag `VER-2-0-9'. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.8 and 2.0.7 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - There was a small but nasty bug in `freetype-config.in' which caused the `freetype-config' script to fail on Unix. This didn't prevent the installation of the library or even its execution, but caused problems when trying to compile many Unix packages that depend on it. - Some TrueType or OpenType fonts embedded in PDF documents do not have a 'cmap', 'post' and 'name' as is required by the specification. FreeType no longer refuses to load such fonts. - Various fixes to the PCF font driver. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.7 and 2.0.6 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - Fixed two bugs in the Type 1 font driver. The first one resulted in a memory leak in subtle cases. The other one caused FreeType to crash when trying to load `.gsf' files (Ghostscript so-called Postscript fonts). (This made _many_ KDE applications crash on certain systems. FreeType _is_ becoming a critical system component on Linux :-) - Fixed a memory leak in the CFF font driver. - Fixed a memory leak in the PCF font driver. - Fixed the Visual C++ project file `builds/win32/visualc/freetype.dsp' since it didn't include the Postscript hinter component, causing errors at build time. - Fixed a small rendering bug in the anti-aliased renderer that only occurred when trying to draw thin (less than 1 pixel) strokes. - Fixed `builds/unix/freetype2.a4' which is used to generate a valid `freetype2.m4' for use with autoconf. - Fixed the OpenVMS Makefiles. II. MISCELLANEOUS - Added `configure' and `install' scripts to the top-level directory. A GNU-style installation is thus now easily possible with ./configure <options> make make install ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.6 and 2.0.5 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - It wasn't possible to load embedded bitmaps when the auto-hinter was used. This is now fixed. - The TrueType font driver didn't load some composites properly (the sub-glyphs were slightly shifted, and this was only noticeable when using monochrome rendering). - Various fixes to the auto-hinter. They merely improve the output of sans-serif fonts. Note that there are still problems with serifed fonts and composites (accented characters). - All scalable font drivers erroneously returned un-fitted glyph advances when hinting was requested. This created problems for a number of layout applications. This is a very old bug that got undetected mainly because most test/demo program perform rounding explicitly or implicitly (through the cache). - `FT_Glyph_To_Bitmap' did erroneously modify the source glyph in certain cases. - `glnames.py' still contained a bug that made FreeType return invalid names for certain glyphs. - The library crashed when loading certain Type 1 fonts like `sadn.pfb' (`Stalingrad Normal'), which appear to contain pathetic font info dictionaries. - The TrueType glyph loader is now much more paranoid and checks everything when loading a given glyph image. This was necessary to avoid problems (crashes and/or memory overwrites) with broken fonts that came from a really buggy automatic font converter. II. IMPORTANT UPDATES AND NEW FEATURES - Important updates to the Mac-specific parts of the library. - The caching sub-system has been completely re-designed, and its API has evolved (the old one is still supported for backward compatibility). The documentation for it is not yet completed, sorry. For now, you are encouraged to continue using the old API. However, the ftview demo program in the ft2demos package has already been updated to use the new caching functions. - A new charmap cache is provided too. See `FTC_CMapCache'. This is useful to perform character code -> glyph index translations quickly, without the need for an opened FT_Face. - A NEW POSTSCRIPT HINTER module has been added to support native hints in the following formats: PostScript Type 1, PostScript CID, and CFF/CEF. Please test! Note that the auto-hinter produces better results for a number of badly-hinted fonts (mostly auto-generated ones) though. - A memory debugger is now part of the standard FreeType sources. To enable it, define FT_DEBUG_MEMORY in <freetype/config/ftoption.h>, and recompile the library. Additionally, define the _environment_ variable FT_DEBUG_MEMORY and run any program using FreeType. When the library is exited, a summary of memory footprints and possible leaks will be displayed. This works transparently with _any_ program that uses FreeType. However, you will need a lot of memory to use this (allocated blocks are never released to the heap to detect double deletes easily). III. MISCELLANEOUS - We are aware of subtle differences between the output of FreeType versions 1 and 2 when it comes to monochrome TrueType-hinted glyphs. These are most probably due to small differences in the monochrome rasterizers and will be worked out in an upcoming release. - We have decided to fork the sources in a `stable' branch, and an `unstable' one, since FreeType is becoming a critical component of many Unix systems. The next bug-fix releases of the library will be named 2.0.7, 2.0.8, etc., while the `2.1' branch will contain a version of the sources where we will start major reworking of the library's internals, in order to produce FreeType 2.2.0 (or even 3.0) in a more distant future. We also hope that this scheme will allow much more frequent releases than in the past. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.5 and 2.0.4 NOTE THAT 2.0.5 DOES NOT CONTAIN THE POSTSCRIPT HINTER. THIS MODULE WILL BE PART OF THE NEXT RELEASE (EITHER 2.0.6 or 2.1) - Fixed a bug that made certain glyphs, like `Cacute', `cacute' and `lslash' unavailable from Unicode charmaps of Postscript fonts. This prevented the correct display of Polish text, for example. - The kerning table of Type 1 fonts was loaded by FreeType, when its AFM file was attached to its face, but the FT_FACE_FLAG_HAS_KERNING bit flags was not set correctly, preventing FT_Get_Kerning to return meaningful values. - Improved SFNT (TrueType & OpenType) charmap support. Slightly better performance, as well as support for the new formats defined by the OpenType 1.3 specification (8, 10, and 12) - Fixed a serious typo in `src/base/ftcalc.c' which caused invalid computations in certain rare cases, producing ugly artefacts. - The size of the EM square is computed with a more accurate algorithm for Postscript fonts. The old one caused slight errors with embedded fonts found in PDF documents. - Fixed a bug in the cache manager that prevented normal LRU behaviour within the cache manager, causing unnecessary reloads (for FT_Face and FT_Size objects only). - Added a new function named `FT_Get_Name_Index' to retrieve the glyph index of a given glyph name, when found in a face. - Added a new function named `FT_Get_Postscript_Name' to retrieve the `unique' Postscript font name of a given face. - Added a new public header size named FT_SIZES_H (or <freetype/ftsizes.h>) providing new FT_Size-management functions: FT_New_Size, FT_Activate_Size, FT_Done_Size. - Fixed a reallocation bug that generated a dangling pointer (and possibly memory leaks) with Postscript fonts (in src/psaux/psobjs.c). - Many fixes for 16-bit correctness. - Removed many pedantic compiler warnings from the sources. - Added an Amiga build directory in `builds/amiga'. ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.4 and 2.0.3 - Fixed a rather annoying bug that was introduced in 2.0.3. Namely, the font transformation set through FT_Set_Transform was applied twice to auto-hinted glyphs, resulting in incorrectly rotated text output. - Fixed _many_ compiler warnings. FT2 should now compile cleanly with Visual C++'s most pedantic warning level (/W4). It already compiled fine with GCC and a few other compilers. - Fixed a bug that prevented the linear advance width of composite TrueType glyphs to be correctly returned. - Fixed the Visual C++ project files located in `builds/win32/visualc' (previous versions used older names of the library). - Many 32-bit constants have an `L' appended to their value, in order to improve the 16-bitness of the code. Someone is actually trying to use FT2 on an Atari ST machine! - Updated the `builds/detect.mk' file in order to automatically build FT2 on AIX systems. AIX uses `/usr/sbin/init' instead of `/sbin/init' and wasn't previously detected as a Unix platform by the FreeType build system. - Updated the Unix-specific portions of the build system (new libtool version, etc.). - The SFNT kerning loader now ensures that the table is sorted (since some problem fonts do not meet this requirement). ======================================================================= CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.3 and 2.0.2 I. CHANGES TO THE MODULES / FONT DRIVERS - THE AUTO-HINTER HAS BEEN SLIGHTLY IMPROVED, in order to fix several annoying artefacts, mainly: - Blue zone alignment of horizontal stems wasn't performed correctly, resulting in artefacts like the `d' being placed one pixel below the `b' in some fonts like Time New Roman. - Overshoot thresholding wasn't performed correctly, creating unpleasant artefacts at large character pixel sizes. - Composite glyph loading has been simplified. This gets rid of various artefacts where the components of a composite glyphs were not correctly spaced. These are the last changes to the current auto-hinting module. A new hinting sub-system is currently in the work in order to support native hints in Type 1 / CFF / OpenType fonts, as well as globally improve rendering. - The PCF driver has been fixed. It reported invalid glyph dimensions for the fonts available on Solaris. - The Type 1, CID and CFF drivers have been modified to fix the computation of the EM size. - The Type 1 driver has been fixed to avoid a dangerous bug that crashed the library with non-conforming fonts (i.e. ones that do not place the .notdef glyph at position 0). - The TrueType driver had a rather subtle bug (dangling pointer when loading composite glyphs) that could crash the library in rare occasions! II. HIGH-LEVEL API CHANGES - The error code enumeration values have been changed. An error value is decomposed in a generic error code, and a module number. see <freetype/fterrors.h> for details. - A new public header file has been introduced, named FT_TRIGONOMETRY_H (include/freetype/fttrigon.h), providing trigonometric functions to compute sines, cosines, arctangents, etc. with 16.16 fixed precision. The implementation is based on the CORDIC algorithm and is very fast while being sufficiently accurate. III. INTERNALS - Added BeOS-specific files in the old build sub-system. Note that no changes were required to compile the library with Jam. - The configuration is now capable of automatically detecting 64-bit integers on a set of predefined compilers (GCC, Visual C++, Borland C++) and will use them by default. This provides a small performance boost. - A small memory leak that happened when opening 0-sized files (duh!) have been fixed. - Fixed bezier stack depth bug in the routines provided by the FT_BBOX_H header file. Also fixed similar bugs in the rasterizers. - The outline bounding box code has been rewritten to use direct computations, instead of bezier sub-division, to compute the exact bounding box of glyphs. This is slightly slower but more accurate. - The build system has been improved and fixed, mainly to support `make' on Windows 2000 correctly, avoid problems with `make distclean' on non Unix systems, etc. - Hexadecimal constants have been suffixed with `U' to avoid problems with certain compilers on 64-bit platforms. - A new directory named `src/tools' has been created. It contains Python scripts and simple unit test programs used to develop the library. - The DocMaker tool has been moved from `docs' to `src/tools' and has been updated with the following: - Now accepts the `--title=XXXX' or `-t XXXX' option from the command line to set the project's name in the generated API reference. - Now accepts the `--output=DIR' or `-o DIR' option from the command line to set the output directory for all generated HTML files. - Now accepts the `--prefix=XXXX' or `-p XXX' option from the command line to set the file prefix to use for all generated HTML files. - Now generates the current time/data on each generated page in order to distinguish between versions. DocMaker can be used with other projects now, not only FT2 (e.g. MLib, FTLayout, etc.). ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.2 and 2.0.1 I. CHANGES TO THE MODULES / FONT DRIVERS - THE TRUETYPE BYTECODE INTERPRETER IS NOW TURNED OFF, in order to avoid legal problems with the Apple patents. It seems that we mistakenly turned this option on in previous releases of the build. Note that if you want to use the bytecode interpreter in order to get high-quality TrueType rendering, you will need to toggle by hand the definition of the TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER macro in the file `include/freetype/config/ftoption.h'. - The CFF driver has been improved by Tom Kacvinsky and Sander van der Wal: * Support for `seac' emulation. * Support for `dotsection'. * Support for retrieving glyph names through `FT_Get_Glyph_Name'. The first two items are necessary to correctly a large number of Type 1 fonts converted to the CFF formats by Adobe Acrobat. - The Type 1 driver was also improved by Tom & others: * Better EM size computation. * Better support for synthetic (transformed) fonts. * The Type 1 driver returns the charstrings corresponding to each glyph in the `glyph->control_data' field after a call to `FT_Load_Glyph' (thanks Ha Shao). - Various other bugfixes, including the following: * Fixed a nasty memory leak in the Type 1 driver. * The autohinter and the pcf driver used static writable data when they shouldn't. * Many casts were added to make the code more 64-bits safe. It also now compiles on Windows XP 64-bits without warnings. * Some incorrect writable statics were removed in the `autohint' and `pcf' drivers. FreeType 2 now compiles on Epoc again. II. CHANGES TO THE HIGH-LEVEL API - The library header files inclusion scheme has been changed. The old scheme looked like: #include <freetype/freetype.h> #include <freetype/ftglyph.h> #include <freetype/ftcache.h> #include <freetype/cache/ftimage.h> Now you should use: #include <ft2build.h> #include FT_FREETYPE_H #include FT_GLYPH_H #include FT_CACHE_H #include FT_CACHE_IMAGE_H NOTE THAT THE OLD INCLUSION SCHEME WILL STILL WORK WITH THIS RELEASE. HOWEVER, WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT THIS WILL STILL BE TRUE IN THE NEXT ONE (A.K.A. FREETYPE 2.1). The file <ft2build.h> is used to define the header filename macros. The complete and commented list of macros is available in the API reference under the section name `Header File Macros' in Chapter I. For more information, see section I of the following document: https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/tutorial/step1.html - Many, many comments have been added to the public source file in order to automatically generate the API Reference through the `docmaker.py' Python script. The latter has been updated to support the grouping of sections in chapters and better index sort. See: https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-toc.html III. CHANGES TO THE BUILD PROCESS - If you are not building FreeType 2 with its own build system (but with your own Makefiles or project files), you will need to be aware that the build process has changed a little bit. You don't need to put the `src' directory in the include path when compiling any FT2 component. Instead, simply put the component's directory in the current include path. So, if you were doing something like: cc -c -Iinclude -Isrc src/base/ftbase.c change the line to: cc -c -Iinclude -Isrc/base src/base/ftbase.c If you were doing something like: cd src/base cc -c -I../../include -I.. ftbase.c change it to: cd src/base cc -c -I../../include ftbase.c ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.1 and 2.0 2.0.1 introduces a few changes: - Fixed many bugs related to the support of CFF / OpenType fonts. These formats are now much better supported though there is still work planned to deal with charset tables and PDF-embedded CFF files that use the old `seac' command. - The library could not be compiled in debug mode with a very small number of C compilers whose pre-processors didn't implement the `##' directive correctly (i.e. per se the ANSI C specification!) An elegant fix was found. - Added support for the free Borland command-line C++ Builder compiler. Use `make setup bcc32'. Also fixed a few source lines that generated new warnings with BCC32. - Fixed a bug in FT_Outline_Get_BBox when computing the extrema of a conic Bezier arc. - Updated the INSTALL file to add IDE compilation. - Other minor bug fixes, from invalid Type 1 style flags to correct support of synthetic (obliqued) fonts in the auto-hinter, better support for embedded bitmaps in a SFNT font. - Fixed some problems with `freetype-config'. Finally, the `standard' scheme for including FreeType headers is now gradually changing, but this will be explained in a later release (probably 2.0.2). And very special thanks to Tom Kacvinsky and YAMANO-UCHI Hidetoshi for their contributions! ====================================================================== CHANGES BETWEEN beta8 and 2.0 - Changed the default installation path for public headers from `include/freetype' to `include/freetype2'. Also added a new `freetype-config' that is automatically generated and installed on Unix and Cygwin systems. The script itself is used to retrieve the current install path, C compilation flags as well as linker flags. - Fixed several small bugs: * Incorrect max advance width for fixed-pitch Type 1 fonts. * Incorrect glyph names for certain TrueType fonts. * The glyph advance was not copied when FT_Glyph_To_Bitmap was called. * The linearHoriAdvance and linearVertAdvance fields were not correctly returned for glyphs processed by the auto-hinter. * `type1z' renamed back to `type1'; the old `type1' module has been removed. - Revamped the build system to make it a lot more generic. This will allow us to re-use nearly un-modified in lots of other projects (including FreeType Layout). - Changed `cid' to use `psaux' too. - Added the cache sub-system. See <freetype/ftcache.h> as well as the sources in `src/cache'. Note that it compiles but is still untested for now. - Updated `docs/docmaker.py', a draft API reference is available at http://www.freetype.org/ft2api.html. - Changed `type1' to use `psaux'. - Created a new module named `psaux' to hold the Type 1 & Type 2 parsing routines. It should be used by `type1', `cid', and `cff' in the future. - Fixed an important bug in `FT_Glyph_Get_CBox'. - Fixed some compiler warnings that happened since the TrueType bytecode decoder was deactivated by default. - Fixed two memory leaks: * The memory manager (16 bytes) isn't released in FT_Done_FreeType! * Using custom input streams, the copy of the original stream was never released. - Fixed the auto-hinter by performing automatic computation of the `filling direction' of each glyph. This is done through a simple and fast approximation, and seems to work (problems spotted by Werner though). The Arphic fonts are a lot nicer though there are still a lot of things to do to handle Asian fonts correctly. ====================================================================== BETA-8 (RELEASE CANDIDATE) CHANGES - Deactivated the TrueType bytecode interpreter by default. - Deactivated the `src/type1' font driver. Now `src/type1z' is used by default. - Updates to the build system. We now compile the library correctly under Unix system through `configure' which is automatically called on the first `make' invocation. - Added the auto-hinting module! Fixing some bugs here and there. - Found some bugs in the composite loader (seac) of the Type1-based font drivers. - Renamed the directory `freetype2/config' to `freetype2/builds' and updated all relevant files. - Found a memory leak in the `type1' driver. - Incorporated Tom's patches to support flex operators correctly in OpenType/CFF fonts. Now all I need is to support pure CFF and CEF fonts to be done with this driver :-) - Added the Windows FNT/FON driver in `src/winfonts'. For now, it always `simulates' a Unicode charmap, so it shouldn't be considered completed right now. It is there to be more a proof of concept than anything else anyway. The driver is a single C source file, that compiles to 3 Kb of code. I'm still working on the PCF/BDF drivers, but I'm too lazy to finish them now. - CHANGES TO THE HIGH-LEVEL API * FT_Get_Kerning has a new parameter that allows you to select the coordinates of the kerning vector (font units, scaled, scaled + grid-fitted). * The outline functions are now in <freetype/ftoutln.h> and not part of <freetype/freetype.h> anymore. * <freetype/ftmodule.h> now contains declarations for FT_New_Library, FT_Done_Library, FT_Add_Default_Modules. * The so-called convenience functions have moved from `ftoutln.c' to `ftglyph.c', and are thus available with this optional component of the library. They are declared in <freetype/ftglyph.h> now. * Anti-aliased rendering is now the default for FT_Render_Glyph (i.e. corresponds to render_mode == 0 == ft_render_mode_normal). To generate a monochrome bitmap, use ft_render_mode_mono, or the FT_LOAD_MONOCHROME flag in FT_Load_Glyph/FT_Load_Char. FT_LOAD_ANTI_ALIAS is still defined, but values to 0. * <freetype/freetype.h> now include <freetype/config/ftconfig.h>, solving a few headaches :-) * The type FT_GlyphSlotRec has now a `library' field. - CHANGES TO THE `ftglyph.h' API This API has been severely modified in order to make it simpler, clearer, and more efficient. It certainly now looks like a real `glyph factory' object, and allows client applications to manage (i.e. transform, bbox and render) glyph images without ever knowing their original format. - Added support for CID-keyed fonts to the CFF driver. Maybe support for pure CFF + CEF fonts should come in? - Cleaned up source code in order to avoid two functions with the same name. Also changed the names of the files in `type1z' from `t1XXXX' to `z1XXXX' in order to avoid any conflicts. `make multi' now works well :-) Also removed the use of `cidafm' for now, even if the source files are still there. This functionality will certainly go into a specific module. - ADDED SUPPORT FOR THE AUTO-HINTER It works :-) I have a demo program which simply is a copy of `ftview' that does a `FT_Add_Module(library, &autohinter_module_class)' after library initialization, and Type 1 & OpenType/CFF fonts are now hinted. CID fonts are not hinted, as they include no charmap and the auto-hinter doesn't include `generic' global metrics computations yet. Now, I need to release this thing to the FreeType 2 source. - CHANGES TO THE RENDERER MODULES The monochrome and smooth renderers are now in two distinct directories, namely `src/raster1' and `src/smooth'. Note that the old `src/renderer' is now gone. I ditched the 5-gray-levels renderers. Basically, it involved a simple #define toggle in 'src/raster1/ftraster.c'. FT_Render_Glyph, FT_Outline_Render & FT_Outline_Get_Bitmap now select the best renderer available, depending on render mode. If the current renderer for a given glyph image format isn't capable of supporting the render mode, another one will be found in the library's list. This means that client applications do not need to switch or set the renderers themselves (as in the latest change), they'll get what they want automatically. At last. Changed the demo programs accordingly. - MAJOR INTERNAL REDESIGN: A lot of internal modifications have been performed lately on the source in order to provide the following enhancements: * More generic module support: The FT_Module type is now defined to represent a handle to a given module. The file <freetype/ftmodule.h> contains the FT_Module_Class definition, as well as the module-loading public API. The FT_Driver type is still defined, and still represents a pointer to a font driver. Note that FT_Add_Driver is replaced by FT_Add_Module, FT_Get_Driver by FT_Get_Module, etc. * Support for generic glyph image types: The FT_Renderer type is a pointer to a module used to perform various operations on glyph image. Each renderer is capable of handling images in a single format (e.g. ft_glyph_format_outline). Its functions are used to: - transform an glyph image - render a glyph image into a bitmap - return the control box (dimensions) of a given glyph image The scan converters `ftraster.c' and `ftgrays.c' have been moved to the new directory `src/renderer', and are used to provide two default renderer modules. One corresponds to the `standard' scan-converter, the other to the `smooth' one. he current renderer can be set through the new function FT_Set_Renderer. The old raster-related function FT_Set_Raster, FT_Get_Raster and FT_Set_Raster_Mode have now disappeared, in favor of the new: FT_Get_Renderer FT_Set_Renderer See the file <freetype/ftrender.h> for more details. These changes were necessary to properly support different scalable formats in the future, like bi-color glyphs, etc. * Glyph loader object: A new internal object, called a 'glyph loader' has been introduced in the base layer. It is used by all scalable format font drivers to load glyphs and composites. This object has been created to reduce the code size of each driver, as each one of them basically re-implemented its functionality. See <freetype/internal/ftobjs.h> and the FT_GlyphLoader type for more information. * FT_GlyphSlot has new fields: In order to support extended features (see below), the FT_GlyphSlot structure has a few new fields: linearHoriAdvance: This field gives the linearly scaled (i.e. scaled but unhinted) advance width for the glyph, expressed as a 16.16 fixed pixel value. This is useful to perform WYSIWYG text. linearVertAdvance: This field gives the linearly scaled advance height for the glyph (relevant in vertical glyph layouts only). This is useful to perform WYSIWYG text. Note that the two above field replace the removed `metrics2' field in the glyph slot. advance: This field is a vector that gives the transformed advance for the glyph. By default, it corresponds to the advance width, unless FT_LOAD_VERTICAL_LAYOUT was specified when calling FT_Load_Glyph or FT_Load_Char. bitmap_left: This field gives the distance in integer pixels from the current pen position to the left-most pixel of a glyph image IF IT IS A BITMAP. It is only valid when the `format' field is set to `ft_glyph_format_bitmap', for example, after calling the new function FT_Render_Glyph. bitmap_top: This field gives the distance in integer pixels from the current pen position (located on the baseline) to the top-most pixel of the glyph image IF IT IS A BITMAP. Positive values correspond to upwards Y. loader: This is a new private field for the glyph slot. Client applications should not touch it. * Support for transforms and direct rendering in FT_Load_Glyph: Most of the functionality found in <freetype/ftglyph.h> has been moved to the core library. Hence, the following: - A transform can be specified for a face through FT_Set_Transform. this transform is applied by FT_Load_Glyph to scalable glyph images (i.e. NOT TO BITMAPS) before the function returns, unless the bit flag FT_LOAD_IGNORE_TRANSFORM was set in the load flags. - Once a glyph image has been loaded, it can be directly converted to a bitmap by using the new FT_Render_Glyph function. Note that this function takes the glyph image from the glyph slot, and converts it to a bitmap whose properties are returned in `face.glyph.bitmap', `face.glyph.bitmap_left' and `face.glyph.bitmap_top'. The original native image might be lost after the conversion. - When using the new bit flag FT_LOAD_RENDER, the FT_Load_Glyph and FT_Load_Char functions will call FT_Render_Glyph automatically when needed. - Reformatted all modules source code in order to get rid of the basic data types redefinitions (i.e. `TT_Int' instead of `FT_Int', `T1_Fixed' instead of `FT_Fixed'). Hence the format-specific prefixes like `TT_', `T1_', `T2_' and `CID_' are only used for relevant structures. ====================================================================== OLD CHANGES FOR BETA 7 - bug-fixed the OpenType/CFF parser. It now loads and displays my two fonts nicely, but I'm pretty certain that more testing is needed :-) - fixed the crummy Type 1 hinter, it now handles accented characters correctly (well, the accent is not always well placed, but that's another problem..) - added the CID-keyed Type 1 driver in `src/cid'. Works pretty well for only 13 Kb of code ;-) Doesn't read AFM files though, nor the really useful CMAP files.. - fixed two bugs in the smooth renderer (src/base/ftgrays.c). Thanks to Boris Letocha for spotting them and providing a fix. - fixed potential `divide by zero' bugs in ftcalc.c. - added source code for the OpenType/CFF driver (still incomplete though..) - modified the SFNT driver slightly to perform more robust header checks in TT_Load_SFNT_Header. This prevents certain font files (e.g. some Type 1 Multiple Masters) from being incorrectly `recognized' as TrueType font files.. - moved a lot of stuff from the TrueType driver to the SFNT module, this allows greater code re-use between font drivers (e.g. TrueType, OpenType, Compact-TrueType, etc..) - added a tiny segment cache to the SFNT Charmap 4 decoder, in order to minimally speed it up.. - added support for Multiple Master fonts in `type1z'. There is also a new file named <freetype/ftmm.h> which defines functions to manage them from client applications. The new file `src/base/ftmm.c' is also optional to the engine.. - various formatting changes (e.g. EXPORT_DEF -> FT_EXPORT_DEF) + small bug fixes in FT_Load_Glyph, the `type1' driver, etc.. - a minor fix to the Type 1 driver to let them apply the font matrix correctly (used for many oblique fonts..) - some fixes for 64-bit systems (mainly changing some FT_TRACE calls to use %p instead of %lx). Thanks to Karl Robillard. - fixed some bugs in the sbit loader (src/base/sfnt/ttsbit.c) + added a new flag, FT_LOAD_CROP_BITMAP to query that bitmaps be cropped when loaded from a file (maybe I should move the bitmap cropper to the base layer ??). - changed the default number of gray levels of the smooth renderer to 256 (instead of the previous 128). Of course, the human eye can't see any difference ;-) - removed TT_MAX_SUBGLYPHS, there is no static limit on the number of subglyphs in a TrueType font now.. ====================================================================== OLD CHANGES 16 May 2000 - tagged `BETA-6' in the CVS tree. This one is a serious release candidate even though it doesn't incorporate the auto-hinter yet.. - various obsolete files were removed, and copyright header updated - finally updated the standard raster to fix the monochrome rendering bug + re-enable support for 5-gray levels anti-aliasing (suck, suck..) - created new header files, and modified sources accordingly: <freetype/fttypes.h> - simple FreeType types, without the API <freetype/internal/ftmemory.h> - definition of memory-management macros - added the `DSIG' (OpenType Digital Signature) tag to <freetype/tttags.h> - light update/cleaning of the build system + changes to the sources in order to get rid of _all_ compiler warnings with three compilers, i.e: gcc with `-ansi -pedantic -Wall -W', Visual C++ with `/W3 /WX' and LCC IMPORTANT NOTE FOR WIN32-LCC USERS: | | It seems the C pre-processor that comes with LCC is broken, it | doesn't recognize the ANSI standard directives # and ## | correctly when one of the argument is a macro. Also, | something like: | | #define F(x) print##x | | F(("hello")) | | will get incorrectly translated to: | | print "hello") | | by its pre-processor. For this reason, you simply cannot build | FreeType 2 in debug mode with this compiler.. - yet another massive grunt work. I've changed the definition of the EXPORT_DEF, EXPORT_FUNC, BASE_DEF & BASE_FUNC macros. These now take an argument, which is the function's return value type. This is necessary to compile FreeType as a DLL on Windows and OS/2. Depending on the compiler used, a compiler-specific keyword like __export or __system must be placed before (VisualC++) or after (BorlandC++) the type.. Of course, this needed a lot of changes throughout the source code to make it compile again... All cleaned up now, apparently.. Note also that there is a new EXPORT_VAR macro defined to allow the _declaration_ of an exportable public (constant) variable. This is the case of the raster interfaces (see ftraster.h and ftgrays.h), as well as each module's interface (see sfdriver.h, psdriver.h, etc..) - new feature: it is now possible to pass extra parameters to font drivers when creating a new face object. For now, this capability is unused. It could however prove to be useful in a near future.. the FT_Open_Args structure was changes, as well as the internal driver interface (the specific `init_face' module function has now a different signature). - updated the tutorial (not finished though). - updated the top-level BUILD document - fixed a potential memory leak that could occur when loading embedded bitmaps. - added the declaration of FT_New_Memory_Face in <freetype/freetype.h>, as it was missing from the public header (the implementation was already in `ftobjs.c'). - the file <freetype/fterrors.h> has been seriously updated in order to allow the automatic generation of error message tables. See the comments within it for more information. - major directory hierarchy re-organisation. This was done for two things: * first, to ease the `manual' compilation of the library by requiring at lot less include paths :-) * second, to allow external programs to effectively access internal data fields. For example, this can be extremely useful if someone wants to write a font producer or a font manager on top of FreeType. Basically, you should now use the 'freetype/' prefix for header inclusion, as in: #include <freetype/freetype.h> #include <freetype/ftglyph.h> Some new include sub-directories are available: a. the `freetype/config' directory, contains two files used to configure the build of the library. Client applications should not need to look at these normally, but they can if they want. #include <freetype/config/ftoption.h> #include <freetype/config/ftconfig.h> b. the `freetype/internal' directory, contains header files that describes library internals. These are the header files that were previously found in the `src/base' and `src/shared' directories. As usual, the build system and the demos have been updated to reflect the change.. Here's a layout of the new directory hierarchy: TOP_DIR include/ freetype/ freetype.h ... config/ ftoption.h ftconfig.h ftmodule.h internal/ ftobjs.h ftstream.h ftcalc.h ... src/ base/ ... sfnt/ psnames/ truetype/ type1/ type1z/ Compiling a module is now much easier, for example, the following should work when in the TOP_DIR directory on an ANSI build: gcc -c -I./include -I./src/base src/base/ftbase.c gcc -c -I./include -I./src/sfnt src/sfnt/sfnt.c etc.. (of course, using -Iconfig/<system> if you provide system-specific configuration files). - updated the structure of FT_Outline_Funcs in order to allow direct coordinate scaling within the outline decomposition routine (this is important for virtual `on' points with TrueType outlines) + updates to the rasters to support this.. - updated the OS/2 table loading code in `src/sfnt/ttload.c' in order to support version 2 of the table (see OpenType 1.2 spec) - created `include/tttables.h' and `include/t1tables.h' to allow client applications to access some of the SFNT and T1 tables of a face with a procedural interface (see `FT_Get_Sfnt_Table') + updates to internal source files to reflect the change.. - some cleanups in the source code to get rid of warnings when compiling with the `-Wall -W -ansi -pedantic' options in gcc. - debugged and moved the smooth renderer to `src/base/ftgrays.c' and its header to `include/ftgrays.h' - updated TT_MAX_SUBGLYPHS to 96 as some CJK fonts have composites with up to 80 sub-glyphs !! Thanks to Werner ====================================================================== OLD CHANGES - 14-apr-2000 - fixed a bug in the TrueType glyph loader that prevented the correct loading of some CJK glyphs in mingli.ttf - improved the standard Type 1 hinter in `src/type1' - fixed two bugs in the experimental Type 1 driver in `src/type1z' to handle the new XFree86 4.0 fonts (and a few other ones..) - the smooth renderer is now complete and supports sub-banding to render large glyphs at high speed. However, it is still located in `demos/src/ftgrays.c' and should move to the library itself in the next beta. NOTE: The smooth renderer doesn't compile in stand-alone mode anymore, but this should be fixed RSN.. - introduced convenience functions to more easily deal with glyph images, see `include/ftglyph.h' for more details, as well as the new demo program named `demos/src/ftstring.c' that demonstrates its use - implemented FT_LOAD_NO_RECURSE in both the TrueType and Type 1 drivers (this is required by the auto-hinter to improve its results). - changed the raster interface, in order to allow client applications to provide their own span-drawing callbacks. However, only the smooth renderer supports this. See `FT_Raster_Params' in the file `include/ftimage.h'. - fixed a small bug in FT_MulFix that caused incorrect transform computation! - Note: The tutorial is out-of-date. ====================================================================== OLD CHANGES - 12-mar-2000 - changed the layout of configuration files : now, all ANSI configuration files are located in `freetype2/config'. System-specific over-rides can be placed in `freetype2/config/<system>'. - moved all configuration macros to `config/ftoption.h' - improvements in the Type 1 driver with AFM support - changed the fields in the FT_Outline structure : the old `flags' array is re-named `tags', while all ancient flags are encoded into a single unsigned int named `flags'. - introduced new flags in FT_Outline.flags (see ft_outline_.... enums in `ftimage.h'). - changed outline functions to `FT_Outline_<action>' syntax - added a smooth anti-alias renderer to the demonstration programs - added Mac graphics driver (thanks Just) - FT_Open_Face changed in order to received a pointer to a FT_Open_Args descriptor.. - various cleanups, a few more API functions implemented (see FT_Attach_File) - updated some docs ====================================================================== OLD CHANGES - 22-feb-2000 - introduced the `psnames' module. It is used to: o convert a Postscript glyph name into the equivalent Unicode character code (used by the Type 1 driver(s) to synthesize on the fly a Unicode charmap). o provide an interface to retrieve the Postscript names of the Macintosh, Adobe Standard & Adobe Expert character codes. (the Macintosh names are used by the SFNT-module postscript names support routines, while the other two tables are used by the Type 1 driver(s)). - introduced the `type1z' alternate Type 1 driver. This is a (still experimental) driver for the Type 1 format that will ultimately replace the one in `src/type1'. It uses pattern matching to load data from the font, instead of a finite state analyzer. It works much better than the `old' driver with `broken' fonts. It is also much smaller (under 15 Kb). - the Type 1 drivers (both in `src/type1' and `src/type1z') are nearly complete. They both provide automatic Unicode charmap synthesis through the `psnames' module. No re-encoding vector is needed. (note that they still leak memory due to some code missing, and I'm getting lazy). Trivial AFM support has been added to read kerning information but wasn't exactly tested as it should ;-) - The TrueType glyph loader has been seriously rewritten (see the file `src/truetype/ttgload.c'. It is now much, much simpler as well as easier to read, maintain and understand :-) Preliminary versions introduced a memory leak that has been reported by Jack Davis, and is now fixed.. - introduced the new `ft_glyph_format_plotter', used to represent stroked outlines like Windows `Vector' fonts, and certain Type 1 fonts like `Hershey'. The corresponding raster will be written soon. - FT_New_Memory_Face is gone. Likewise, FT_Open_Face has a new interface that uses a structure to describe the input stream, the driver (if required), etc.. TODO - Write FT_Get_Glyph_Bitmap and FT_Load_Glyph_Bitmap - Add a function like FT_Load_Character(face, char_code, load_flags) that would really embed a call to FT_Get_Char_Index then FT_Load_Glyph to ease developer's work. - Update the tutorial! - consider adding support for Multiple Master fonts in the Type 1 drivers. - Test the AFM routines of the Type 1 drivers to check that kerning information is returned correctly. - write a decent auto-gridding component !! We need this to release FreeType 2.0 gold ! less urgent needs: - add a CFF/Type2 driver - add a BDF driver - add a FNT/PCF/HBF driver - add a Speedo driver from the X11 sources ====================================================================== OLDER CHANGES - 27-jan-2000 - updated the `sfnt' module interface to allow several SFNT-based drivers to co-exist peacefully - updated the `T1_Face' type to better separate Postscript font content from the rest of the FT_Face structure. Might be used later by the CFF/Type2 driver.. - added an experimental replacement Type 1 driver featuring advanced (and speedy) pattern matching to retrieve the data from postscript fonts. - very minor changes in the implementation of FT_Set_Char_Size and FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes (they now implement default to lighten the font driver's code). ====================================================================== OLD MESSAGE This file summarizes the changes that occurred since the last `beta' of FreeType 2. Because the list is important, it has been divided into separate sections: Table Of Contents: I High-Level Interface (easier !) II Directory Structure III Glyph Image Formats IV Build System V Portability VI Font Drivers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- High-Level Interface: The high-level API has been considerably simplified. Here is how: - resource objects have disappeared. this means that face objects can now be created with a single function call (see FT_New_Face and FT_Open_Face) - when calling either FT_New_Face & FT_Open_Face, a size object and a glyph slot object are automatically created for the face, and can be accessed through `face->glyph' and `face->size' if one really needs to. In most cases, there's no need to call FT_New_Size or FT_New_Glyph. - similarly, FT_Load_Glyph now only takes a `face' argument (instead of a glyph slot and a size). Also, its `result' parameter is gone, as the glyph image type is returned in the field `face->glyph.format' - the list of available charmaps is directly accessible through `face->charmaps', counting `face->num_charmaps' elements. Each charmap has an 'encoding' field which specifies which known encoding it deals with. Valid values are, for example: ft_encoding_unicode (for ASCII, Latin-1 and Unicode) ft_encoding_apple_roman ft_encoding_sjis ft_encoding_adobe_standard ft_encoding_adobe_expert other values may be added in the future. Each charmap still holds its `platform_id' and `encoding_id' values in case the encoding is too exotic for the current library ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Directory Structure: Should seem obvious to most of you: freetype/ config/ -- configuration sub-makefiles ansi/ unix/ -- platform-specific configuration files win32/ os2/ msdos/ include/ -- public header files, those to be included directly by client apps src/ -- sources of the library base/ -- the base layer sfnt/ -- the sfnt `driver' (see the drivers section below) truetype/ -- the truetype driver type1/ -- the type1 driver shared/ -- some header files shared between drivers demos/ -- demos/tools docs/ -- documentation (a bit empty for now) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Glyph Image Formats: Drivers are now able to register new glyph image formats within the library. For now, the base layer supports of course bitmaps and vector outlines, but one could imagine something different like colored bitmaps, bi-color vectors or whatever else (Metafonts anyone ??). See the file `include/ftimage.h'. Note also that the type FT_Raster_Map is gone, and is now replaced by FT_Bitmap, which should encompass all known bitmap types. Each new image format must provide at least one `raster', i.e. a module capable of transforming the glyph image into a bitmap. It's also possible to change the default raster used for a given glyph image format. The default outline scan-converter now uses 128 levels of grays by default, which tends to smooth many things. Note that the demo programs have been updated significantly in order to display these.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Build system: You still need GNU Make to build the library. The build system has been very seriously re-vamped in order to provide things like : - automatic host platform detection (reverting to 'config/ansi' if it is not detected, with pseudo-standard compilation flags) - the ability to compile from the Makefiles with very different and exotic compilers. Note that linking the library can be difficult for some platforms. For example, the file `config/win32/lcclib.bat' is invoked by the build system to create the `.lib' file with LCC-Win32 because its librarian has too many flaws to be invoked directly from the Makefile. Here's how it works: - the first time you type `make', the build system runs a series of sub-makefiles in order to detect your host platform. It then dumps what it found, and creates a file called `config.mk' in the current directory. This is a sub-Makefile used to define many important Make variables used to build the library. - the second time, the build system detects the `config.mk' then use it to build the library. All object files go into 'obj' by default, as well as the library file, but this can easily be changed. Note that you can run `make setup' to force another host platform detection even if a `config.mk' is present in the current directory. Another solution is simply to delete the file, then re-run make. Finally, the default compiler for all platforms is gcc (for now, this will hopefully changed in the future). You can however specify a different compiler by specifying it after the 'setup' target as in: gnumake setup lcc on Win32 to use the LCC compiler gnumake setup visualc on Win32 to use Visual C++ See the file `config/<system>/detect.mk' for a list of supported compilers for your platforms. It should be relatively easy to write new detection rules files and config.mk.. Finally, to build the demo programs, go to `demos' and launch GNU Make, it will use the `config.mk' in the top directory to build the test programs.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Portability: In the previous beta, a single FT_System object was used to encompass all low-level operations like thread synchronisation, memory management and i/o access. This has been greatly simplified: - thread synchronisation has been dropped, for the simple reason that the library is already re-entrant, and that if you really need two threads accessing the same FT_Library, you should really synchronize access to it yourself with a simple mutex. - memory management is performed through a very simple object called `FT_Memory', which really is a table containing a table of pointers to functions like malloc, realloc and free as well as some user data (closure). - resources have disappeared (they created more problems than they solved), and i/o management have been simplified greatly as a result. Streams are defined through FT_Stream objects, which can be either memory-based or disk-based. Note that each face has its own stream, which is closed only when the face object is destroyed. Hence, a function like TT_Flush_Face in 1.x cannot be directly supported. However, if you really need something like this, you can easily tailor your own streams to achieve the same feature at a lower level (and use FT_Open_Face instead of FT_New_Face to create the face). See the file `include/ftsystem.h' for more details, as well as the implementations found in `config/unix' and `config/ansi'. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Font Drivers: The Font Driver interface has been modified in order to support extensions & versioning. The list of the font drivers that are statically linked to the library at compile time is managed through a new configuration file called `config/<platform>/ftmodule.h'. This file is autogenerated when invoking `make modules'. This target will parse all sub-directories of 'src', looking for a `module.mk' rules file, used to describe the driver to the build system. Hence, one should call `make modules' each time a font driver is added or removed from the `src' directory. Finally, this version provides a `pseudo-driver' in `src/sfnt'. This driver doesn't support font files directly, but provides services used by all TrueType-like font drivers. Hence, its code is shared between the TrueType & OpenType font formats, and possibly more formats to come if we're lucky.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Extensions support: The extensions support is inspired by the one found in 1.x. Now, each font driver has its own `extension registry', which lists which extensions are available for the font faces managed by the driver. Extension ids are now strings, rather than 4-byte tags, as this is usually more readable. Each extension has: - some data, associated to each face object - an interface (table of function pointers) An extension that is format-specific should simply register itself to the correct font driver. Here is some example code: // Registering an extensions // FT_Error FT_Init_XXXX_Extension( FT_Library library ) { FT_DriverInterface* tt_driver; driver = FT_Get_Driver( library, "truetype" ); if (!driver) return FT_Err_Unimplemented_Feature; return FT_Register_Extension( driver, &extension_class ); } // Implementing the extensions // FT_Error FT_Proceed_Extension_XXX( FT_Face face ) { FT_XXX_Extension ext; FT_XXX_Extension_Interface ext_interface; ext = FT_Get_Extension( face, "extensionid", &ext_interface ); if (!ext) return error; return ext_interface->do_it(ext); } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright 2000-2017 by David Turner, Robert Wilhelm, and Werner Lemberg. This file is part of the FreeType project, and may only be used, modified, and distributed under the terms of the FreeType project license, LICENSE.TXT. By continuing to use, modify, or distribute this file you indicate that you have read the license and understand and accept it fully. Local Variables: version-control: never coding: utf-8 End: --- end of CHANGES ---